In Nebraska, a publicly owned utility deftly tackles the challenges of delivering on reliability, affordability, and sustainability.

Scientists hope to prevent deaths from climate change, but heat and cold are more complicated than we thought.

If we want online discourse to improve, we need to move beyond the big platforms.

As climate change fuels increasingly erratic weather, scientists need a better read on snowpack temperature to understand when water will reach reservoirs—and when it threatens to flood them.

Mike Rothschild has spent years studying the rise of QAnon and antivaccine conspiracism. After his house in Altadena, California, burned down, he found himself mired in similarly sticky webs of misinformation.

Some therapists are using AI during therapy sessions. They’re risking their clients’ trust and privacy in the process.

Kenyan runners, like many others, are grappling with the impact of expensive, high-performance shoes.

The seventh continent has always been a bleak, unconnected place. Elon Musk’s satellite internet is changing that, and people want to see what life is like there.

Frozen embryos are filling storage banks around the world. It's a struggle to know what to do with them.

Forget the glorious successes of past breakthroughs—the real

This story was written by David Rotman and narrated by Noa -