Best of 2018: Science and Technology

“It flooded in early January, and then it happened again two or three months later,” says Matt Teague of Barnstable, Mass., about the slew of storms that hit Cape Cod in the winter of 2017. “We’re like, what are we doing here?” he says, opening his arms skyward. It is now the peak of summer […]

Carl Miller on the terrifying, hidden reality of Ridiculously Complicated Algorithms

If there’s anything worse than an old-school restaurant being uncool, it’s an old-school restaurant suddenly becoming hot.

FUTURE HUMAN Survival of the Richest The wealthy are plotting to leave us behind (This piece is now the basis of a new book, Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires.) Last …

An investigation into how software wires global supply chains, and what code conceals.

"We were seduced, we were lured, we were hooked, and then, when we became captive audiences, we were manipulated to see what other people — people with vested interests and evil motives of power and domination — wanted us to see."

Agriculture could pull carbon out of the air and into the soil — but it would mean a whole new way of thinking about how to tend the land.