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Pioneering environmentalist Stewart Brand lays out a doomsday scenario for global warming—and a best-case scenario that’s also “pretty grim.” So why is he still smiling?
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From asteroids to worldwide hydrogen sulfide poisoning, extinction expert Peter Ward offers a diverse menu of scenarios for humanity’s demise.
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The CO2 levels Peter Ward measured on a recent trip to Antarctica left him with a bleak view of the future of the planet.
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Twenty-something’s should be reaching out to as many people as possible.
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The right person has to know exactly what they want to change.
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Implementing a new system of shared urban mobility is going to take serious behavioral modification.
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Ryan Chin outlines the other revolutionary green vehicles under development at MIT Media Lab that have the potential to alter urban transportation.
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The automobile of the future could be pink one day and green the next.
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A conversation with the PhD student at MIT Media Lab.
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Cities won’t look like “some sort of science-fiction fantasy,” but it’s likely that technological advances and information overlays will change the way we live in significant ways.
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“It came out of some esoteric backroom research that nobody thought had any huge practical implication whatsoever,” says the professor at MIT’s Media Lab. Game-changing technologies in transportation may arise […]
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Imagine a world where you bid on parking spaces eBay-style.
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There is a greater readiness in Europe to deal with public solutions to transportation issues. Plus, there are circumstances that make it easier to do so.
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Bill Mitchell envisions cars that you’ll never have to worry about filling up or plugging in.
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The U.S. can learn from European bicycle sharing programs and their lack of sophisticated solutions to system balancing.
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Everybody thinks automobiles need to have engines. They don’t. We need to radically change our perception of transportation.
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A conversation with the MIT Professor and Director of the Media Lab’s Smart Cities Group.
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As the universe’s expansion accelerates, other galaxies will fall off the observable horizon—leaving ours as lonely as scientists before Einstein used to think it was.
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Like many physicists, Michio Kaku thinks our universe will end in a “big freeze.” Unlike many physicists, he thinks we might be able to avoid this fate by slipping into […]
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The likelihood of a doomsday war has declined since the Soviet Union fell, but the chances of a nuclear attack on a major city have risen dramatically. How can we […]
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A nearby star system may “go supernova” in 10 million years—far sooner than scientists once predicted.
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If asteroids or supernovas don’t kill Earth, our planet will die when the Sun swells up and vaporizes it. By that time, Ed Sion hopes we’ll have long since packed […]
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Fortunately, the technology to intercept and destroy renegade space matter is no longer a Hollywood myth.
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A conversation with the astronomer and astrophysicist at Villanova University.
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The promise and thrill of discovery are what keep scientists going in spite of endless frustration.
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Doctors’ visits will soon include the sequencing of “at least part of your genome.” If scientists don’t clearly explain the reasons for this, they’ve failed the taxpayers who fund their […]
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Prolonged graduate education hampers promising careers, says Gregory Hannon. Better to give scientists hands-on experience early.
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As sequencing individuals’ genomes becomes cheaper and easier, how can we prevent the release of private genetic information onto the Web?
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Finding the common point of vulnerability that makes threatened cells collapse may help science overcome the troublesome uniqueness of human cancers.
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A bizarre facial tumor has decimated the Tasmanian devil population in recent years. Spurred by a worried grad student, Gregory Hannon set out to unlock the secrets of the disease.
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