The most climate-friendly groceries might not be in the supermarket

The grocery store is the default resource in the U.S. for fresh food. Meanwhile, there are subscription services that ...

Sea level doesn’t rise at the same rate everywhere – we mapped where Antarctica’s ice melt would have the biggest impact

While Antarctic meltwater drives rising sea levels, models show it also delays greenhouse gas-induced warming. That’s because icy meltwater from Antarctica reduces ocean surface temperatures in the ...

Automated systems decide which homeless Philadelphians get housing and who stays on the street – often in ways that feel arbitrary to those waiting

Because most of these systems are premised on targeting resources to the most vulnerable people, defining and gauging vulnerability becomes fraught with tension. After all, vulnerability is inherently ...
Opinion

Colleges teach the most valuable career skills when they don’t stick narrowly to preprofessional education

Yet in business, research labs, design studios, hospitals and engineering firms, initiative is the quality employers most urgently need and cannot easily teach. Broader educational approaches help ...

The ChatGPT effect: In 3 years the AI chatbot has changed the way people look things up

The biggest change isn’t that other tools have vanished. It’s that ChatGPT has become the new front door to information. Within months of its introduction on Nov. 30, 2022, ChatGPT had 100 million ...

Fern stems reveal secrets of evolution – how constraints in development can lead to new forms

Cuvier proposed that because each part of an organism is developmentally linked to every other part, changes in one part would result in changes to another. With this theory, he argued that a single ...
Opinion

From concrete to community: How synthetic data can make urban digital twins more humane

Adding synthetic human dynamics fundamentally changes digital twins. It shifts them from static models of infrastructure to dynamic simulations that show how people live in the city. By generating ...

A quarter of early child care educators in Colorado reported mistreatment from co-workers

We found that roughly 25% of early child care staff in Colorado self-reported discrimination and condescending or demeaning treatment from a colleague in the past year, with 15% experiencing more than ...

Treating love for work like a virtue can backfire on employees and teams

At first glance, treating love for work as a virtue seems to offer nothing but benefits. If a job’s mission or day-to-day tasks are personally meaningful, you may persist through challenges, because ...

Rick Atkinson's Revolutionary War trilogy to be adapted into graphic editions

Military historian Rick Atkinson, known for his Revolutionary War trilogy, is venturing into graphic books. Ten Speed Graphic plans to release a graphic edition of “The British Are Coming” ...

When darkness shines: How dark stars could illuminate the early universe

In the dense environment of the early universe, dark matter particles would collide with, and annihilate, each other, releasing energy in the process. This energy could heat the hydrogen and helium ...

Techos arrancados y ventanas rotas entre los daños en más de 100 casas por tornado cerca de Houston

HOUSTON (AP) — Un tornado que atravesó áreas residenciales al norte de Houston dañó más de 100 hogares, arrancando techos, ...