How Self-Driving Electric Cars Will Change the American Road Trip
Imagine a rest area that’s more like a walkable shopping district, where vehicles drop passengers off and then go recharge themselves.
How the meat-loving city of Ghent became the veggie capital of Europe
Cities around the world are taking notes from this vegetable-forward metropolis.
How the Swindlers of Silicon Valley Avoid Paying Taxes
Now they’re pushing an ingenious new dodge that would allow them to pay even less.
How to Build Solidarity Across Difference
“Deep canvassing” offers a model for how anti-racist Americans can practice what they preach and work to promote racial justice narratives.
How trees talk to each other
“A forest is much more than what you see,” says ecologist Suzanne Simard. Her 30 years of research in Canadian forests have led to an astounding discovery — trees talk, often and over vast distances.
How We Can Build a Hardier World After the Coronavirus
The coronavirus pandemic has revealed one particularly shocking thing about our societies and economies: they have been operating on a very thin margin.
How Will Farms and Restaurants Emerge from the Coronavirus?
Experts weigh in on the state of our food system, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
How Wolves Saved the Foxes, Mice and Rivers of Yellowstone National Park
Yellowstone National Park was plagued by defoliation, erosion and an unbalanced ecosystem, but everything changed when wolves were reintroduced to the park in 1995.
How Would You Feel About a 4-Day Workweek?
As productivity has soared, time off has not kept pace. It’s time to change that.
Human Brains Unable To Add Neurons After Adolescence
The brains of birds and mice continue to produce new nerve cells in the hippocampus throughout life. But research now suggests the human brain stops doing this around adolescence.
