# tech
New technology allows computers and fMRI machines to decode what you're thinking as a stream of text. It sounds creepy, but it could save lives.
# space
Gas giants orbiting their parent stars just keep getting weirder and weirder.
# oddities
Summaries of ethnographic journals said something fundamentally different than the journals themselves.
# space
NASA proved we can redirect incoming asteroids. Now we just need to find them before they find us, and we think we might know the best way to do it.
# longform
A deep dive into the technology behind the horrors unleashed on humanity after Oppenheimer's gadget successfully exploded in New Mexico.
# science
Global warming is making heat weaves in already scorching years much worse. And none of us are ready for just how nasty things could get.
# space
A new paper making big waves says that the cosmos is 26.7 billion years old. The catch? It relies on phenomena we've never seen before.
# science
According to science, we tend to see ourselves through rose-tinted glasses and forgive ourselves a lot more than we should. And that can be a real problem.
# space
Our spaceships have left the solar system and are heading to the stars. If we want to follow them, we're going to have to reinvent everything, ourselves included.
# longform
Many of us are living in a dystopian future, but realizing that fact and making changes to fix it are much more difficult than it sounds.
# longform
Organized skepticism was once covered in every major publication around the world. Why did it seemingly vanish overnight? And what damage did its implosion leave behind?
# tech
Hollywood writers are once again on strike. Their goal? Nothing less than figuring out how humans and AI can coexist with runaway late-stage capitalism.
# tech
Our nearly inevitable cyborg overlords may have a lot more squish and atomic scale wiring than we were taught to expect by science fiction.
# space
Scientists figured out an ingenious recipe for extra strong concrete perfect for habitats on the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
# science
New research into the psychological roots of greed shows that greed may mean access to more money and luxuries, but at the cost of damaging literally everything else.
