Nick Lucchesi

Nick is editor-in-chief for Inverse. He has done stints at the Village Voice, the Denver Westword, and the Saint Louis Riverfront Times. He writes about art, technology, nature, and the future of cities.  He is a new dad and still rides a fixed-gear bicycle. Email him at nick@inverse.com.
Inverse Daily
Inverse Daily: 5 stories that investigate the next 100 years on Earth
Nick Lucchesi
Our 2021 Earth Day issue reports on the next 99 years.
Inverse Daily
Solar energy, depression, your feet, and oysters: Learn something new about all four
Nick Lucchesi
We have four stories that may change your mind about electricity, depression, your feet, and oysters.
TGIF
Inverse Daily: A near-Earth asteroid and a raw imagining from the Late Pleistocene
Nick Lucchesi
Plus: What you should know about the B.1.1.7 variant of Covid-19, which is spreading quickly.
HBD Hermione and Arya
Inverse Daily: Dinosaurs, aliens, Covid-19, and exercise
Nick Lucchesi
Four stories that challenge conventional thinking are in this edition of Inverse Daily, the daily Inverse newsletter. This is an adapted version of the newsletter presented for the web.
HBD Buffy
Is Neuralink's monkey Pong video the future? Or something else?
Nick Lucchesi
Elon Musk's Neuralink, the enterprise that is developing a brain-computer interface, released a video of a monkey playing Pong that wowed the millions who saw it — but a pioneer in the field has a different point of view.
Inverse Daily
Make one change to your eating routine to maybe live a little longer
Nick Lucchesi
Plus: Mysterious X-rays from Crab Pulsar may be more powerful than thought; the new ultra-luxury electric Mercedes EQS looks bonkers; there are microplastics in the atmosphere.
Inverse Daily
Good things come to those who wait — like Mars helicopters
Nick Lucchesi
Plus: We’ve found a surprising connection between keto diets and sobriety.
TGIF
What if Ingenuity crashes on Mars?
Nick Lucchesi
Plus: Two different studies about monkeys and apes shed light on why humans act the way they do.
Innovation
Inverse Daily: Why Monday is so critical for NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity
Nick Lucchesi
Plus: Due to popular demand — OK, NASA schedules — Ingenuity Week has been extended!
Tough call
'MLB The Show 21' Game Pass reactions reveal a big PlayStation problem
Nick Lucchesi
Reactions to the Inverse story published this week are dredging up old questions and igniting new conversations.
Ingenuity Week
Science suggests making one change in your routine before starting a diet
Nick Lucchesi
Plus: Sci-fi robots vs. the real ones, Chevy has a new electric truck, and seafood is good, but, like, diversify.
Hot or Not
Inverse Daily: A.I. is shown in new testing to predict who you find attractive
Nick Lucchesi
Plus: Gandalf the Grey likely had a diverse microbiome.
Cybertruck codex
Tesla Cybertruck release date, specs, price: "Doesn't look like anything else.”
Mike Brown, Nick Lucchesi and Jordan Golson
In the months since the launch, Elon Musk has ratcheted up the hype.
Innovation
Ingenuity flies this week: The Mars helicopter event is being compared to Kitty Hawk
Nick Lucchesi
Plus: The evolutionary reason all your friends made babies during the pandemic.
HBD Wangari Maathai
Inverse Daily: What we think dinosaurs looked like may be wrong
Nick Lucchesi
Plus: What’s the Mars helicopter up to before its April 8 flight.
HBD young Obi-Wan
SpaceX SN11 crashes, a sunken protoplanet, and if your cat will eat you
Nick Lucchesi
Plus: It’s young Obi-Wan day.
HBD, María Moliner
See the electric pickup trucks that will give Tesla Cybertruck competition
Nick Lucchesi
Plus: Even black holes have an awkward phase.
HBD Mario Pari
Inverse Daily: Secrets of the old world finally revealed by modern technology
Nick Lucchesi
Plus: There’s good news for fidgeters.
HBD Prokop Diviš
The Pentagon’s UFO report is incoming: What to know
Nick Lucchesi
Plus: Scientists report on really, really cute ocean animals that are coming back from extinction.
HBD Jim Lovell
Inverse Daily: A neglected good deed returns to the superhero movie
Nick Lucchesi
Plus: Evidence shows that 2020 was a good year for tofu, and 2021 might be better.