Future Cities

Space Exploration

To Live on Mars, Human Architecture Has to Combine Science and Sci-Fi

ByTatyana Woodall
Food Technology

Inside the Existential Struggle to Make a Perfect Paper Drinking Straw

ByMadeline Muzzi
Design

The Best Air Purifiers May Be Made From 2 Unusual House Plants

ByMichelle Mastro
Solutions

Mushrooms’ Remarkable Properties Can Build a New Era Of Sustainable Design

ByBecca Caddy
Future Cities

One Urban Design Fix Could Make City Dwellers Happier and Healthier

BySarah Sloat
Profile

Ariel Ekblaw Wants To Go to Space So We Can Save Earth

ByClaire Cameron
Feature

What If You Could Become a Tree? This Start-Up Could Help You Do It

ByLindsay Lee Wallace
Gear

Hyundai’s 2023 Kona pulls its new look from the futuristic Ioniq 5

ByJackson Chen
Science

If humans survive for a million years, this is what the world might look like

ByAnders Sandberg and The Conversation
Gear

How Tesla could dominate EV fast charging across America

ByJackson Chen
Gear

This electric SUV from Scotland makes Tesla’s Cybertruck look sleek

ByJackson Chen
Gear

A four-door Corvette EV could shirk every rule in the sports car’s playbook

ByJackson Chen
Gear

Club Car's mini EV is a portable party machine you probably can’t afford

ByJackson Chen
Gear

Hyundai Ioniq 6 release date and price for the new electric sedan

ByJackson Chen
Gear

Volvo EX90 electric SUV: price, range, and release date

ByJackson Chen
Gear

Audi Q8 e-tron electric SUV: range, price, and specs

ByJackson Chen
Gear

This plant-based e-bike takes sustainability to a whole new level

ByJackson Chen
Gear

Tesla’s biggest range competitor is about to release two more EVs

ByJackson Chen
Gear

GMC’s Sierra EV has a 400-mile range and "crab walks" like a Hummer

ByJackson Chen
Gear

Look: Rolls-Royce’s $413,000 EV is as ridiculous is its price suggests

ByJackson Chen
Gear

Foxconn’s new car concepts prove it wants to make the iPhone of EVs

ByJackson Chen
Gear

This 4x4 e-scooter is the monster truck of electric mobility

ByJackson Chen
HORIZONS

Future Moon cities could look like bouncy houses

ByRahul Rao
Gear

The Polestar 3 electric SUV now has an official price

ByJackson Chen
Gear

This four-wheeled e-scooter wants to be the supercar of electric mobility

ByJackson Chen
Innovation

When hurricanes knock out the grid, could solar and batteries power your home?

ByWill Gorman, Bentham Paulos, Galen Barbose and The Conversation
Science

Even if geoengineering worked, over half the world could keep heating up

ByPatrick W. Keys, Curtis Bell, Elizabeth A. Barnes, James W. Hurrell, Noah Diffenbaugh and The Conversation
Books

Scientists may have already discovered a “miracle” fix for climate change

BySaul Griffith and The Reader
Covid-19

Is the Covid-19 pandemic over? Experts share their predictions for 2023

ByWilliam Hauk, Lisa Miller, Wayne Au and The Conversation
Reel Science

The best thriller of the century reveals a real climate change disaster

ByTara Yarlagadda
Innovation

Tesla's Semi truck took too long — so these truckers built their own version

ByAndrew Moseman
Innovation

Goodbye, IKEA — a futuristic technology could create self-assembling furniture

ByMolly Glick
Innovation

Scientists went dumpster diving to find out where all our trash really comes from

ByMatthew Johnson, Thomas Stanton, Antonia Law, Guaduneth Chico and The Conversation
Innovation

Can we terraform Mars? Scientists may have made a major breakthrough

ByJeff Nagle
Innovation

Scientists create fake leaves that generate a clean fuel source

BySarah Wells
Innovation

60 years ago, an iconoclast designer revealed a fix for our biggest tech problem

ByTim Gorichanaz and The Conversation
Innovation

Electric vehicles could transform U.S. cities — but not for the reason you think

ByErica D. Walker and The Conversation
Innovation

Will Miami exist in 2050? 4 strategies could keep U.S. coastal cities afloat

ByJames Gaines
Innovation

A wild new plane-train hybrid could whoosh you to your destination — if it can get off the ground

ByMolly Glick

Railways around the world are literally melting — here’s why they can’t take the heat

ByKangkang Tang and The Conversation
Culture

How parks can become epicenters of quiet gentrification

ByJose Antonio Lara-Hernandez and The Conversation
HORIZONS

Carbon capture technology could turn trains into giant greenhouse-gas vacuums

ByAllison Parshall

Exclusive: Wesley Snipes dives into a cyberpunk apocalypse in 'The Exiled'

ByJeff Spry
HORIZONS

The home of the future could never let your smartphone battery die

ByClaire Cameron
HORIZONS

Electric vehicles depend on chargers — this truth may be their greatest obstacle

ByAndrew Moseman
HORIZONS

Beam-steering radio technology could help autonomous cars finally hit the road

BySascha Brodsky
HORIZONS

NASA loses 2 cyclone-tracking satellites after launch company Astra rocket fails

ByClaire Cameron
Protect Our Planet

Planting trees isn’t enough. Here’s why we need tiny man-made forests

ByTara Yarlagadda
Opinion

2022 hurricane season: Why it could be the worst since Hurricane Katrina

ByNick Shay and The Conversation
HORIZONS

These robots have one special skill that could make human chefs obsolete

BySascha Brodsky