The Conference That Skipped the Debate and Went Straight to the Numbers
Fifty-four countries walked into Santa Marta this week with a shared problem and no agreed map. By the end of the conference's first day…
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What Happens When Scientists Stop Waiting for Politicians to Ask
The venue was a theatre. The audience, government ministers. The message, delivered by scientists who’d flown to Colombia’s Caribbean coast…
The Businesses That Bet on Clean Power Early Are Being Told It Doesn't Count
Somewhere in the architecture of EU policy, two offices are working against each other. One is writing energy strategy.
Kia Designed a Sports Car for the Generation That Grew Up with a Controller
There's a particular kind of concept car that exists purely to generate a headline, and then there's one that tells you something real about where a company…
A Tiny Adjustment in a Lab Changed What AI Hardware Might Cost to Run
Three years of failed experiments. Then, in late November, the results changed. Babak Bakhit, a researcher at the University of Cambridge's Department…
After the Crisis: Why Europe's Energy Problem Isn't Over
Europe didn’t discover its energy vulnerability in 2022. It had been warned for years. What changed was that the warning arrived in the form of a bill…
Rethinking Intelligence: A Conversation with Holger Thorsten Schubart
On AI, Intent Disambiguation, and Why the Most Important Step in Understanding New Technology Is Often the One Nobody Takes.
Physics Has Always Known the Universe Never Stops. Energy Science Forgot to Listen.
The universe has never been in equilibrium. Most of our energy infrastructure behaves as if it has. That mismatch is not a coincidence.
"Climate Change Cartographies"
Yale Environmental Humanities was launched in 2018 as a platform to highlight and support the emerging interdisciplinary conversation…
Cosmic Neutrinos: A Novel Universe Map
The neutrinos are important for studying fundamental physics since physicists now know the origin of at least some of these high-energy particles.
Somewhere, Every Morning, Something New Needs Power
Somewhere, every morning, something that did not exist last year is switched on for the first time. Not metaphorically. Literally.
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Racing the Clock on Quantum: Germany Bets on a Technology That Could Rewrite Computing
The computers that run the modern world are, in a fundamental sense, hitting a wall. Classical processors have grown faster and smaller for decades…