Not too long ago, plastic pollution seemed far away. It lived in pictures of tangled fishing nets encircling sea turtles or floating bottles in the Pacific.…
Author: Sam Allcock
The atmosphere outside the convention center where the annual GPU Technology Conference takes place in San Jose on a sunny morning is frequently more akin to…
The sky appears oddly quiet late at night in radio observatories all over the world. No visible stars, no glowing galaxies. Just computer screens with streams…
The wind blows across red dirt and dry grass on the flat plains outside of Abilene, Texas. Until recently there wasn’t much here—just cattle land and…
Patients stroll slowly through the sliding glass doors of a Boston diabetes clinic on a gloomy winter’s morning, their jackets zipped against the wind and coffee…
In Singapore’s central district, commuters rush beneath glass bus shelters on a wet morning as a silent digital system monitors the city’s pulse. Thousands of signals…
The night sky appears serene at first glance. A scattering of silent stars. a constant glow from far-off galaxies. However, astronomers are aware that serenity can…
Volunteers lie inside a sealed space called a metabolic room in a quiet metabolic research lab at Harvard Medical School. The walls are just white. While…
A phone screen glows softly on the kitchen table in a small apartment on a calm evening. “How was your day?” is the message that appears.…
A big concrete structure hums softly from dawn until well after midnight on the outskirts of Shanghai, where warehouses stretch toward the mist of far-off apartment…