Three-quarters of everything in the average American diet passes through the cold chain—the network of warehouses, shipping containers, trucks, display cases, and domestic fridges that keep meat, milk, and more chilled on... Read more »

Researchers from Google DeepMind recently trained a system of large language models to help people come to agreement over complex but important social or political issues. The AI model was trained to... Read more »

Twilley—a frequent contributor to the New Yorker and cohost of the podcast Gastropod, which looks at food through the lens of science and history—offers in her book a behind-the-scenes look at the... Read more »

This infrastructure gap – the difference between funding and construction – is vast. And while governments and companies everywhere are feeling the strain of constructing an energy efficient and sustainable built environment,... Read more »

Lisa Dyson is the founder of one of these startups, Air Protein. When she talks about the inspiration for her company, she often cites NASA research from the 1960s. Back then the... Read more »

A new crop of biotech startups, armed with carbon-guzzling bacteria and plenty of capital, are promising something that seems too good to be true. They say they can make food out of... Read more »

Janet’s voice crackles in Tascha’s ear as they dangle off their rappelling lines, swinging from point to point in their harnesses. The gray soup of Canada’s burning forests envelops them.  “How are... Read more »

 “We’re really firm believers that by contributing to the community and building upon open-source data models, the whole community moves further, faster,” says Larry Zitnick, the lead researcher for the OMat project.... Read more »