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Sustainability
Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
It’s an agricultural moonshot: Scientists hope to increase plant yields by hacking photosynthesis, the process that powers life on Earth.
Retired astronaut Ron Garan believes that before we can begin solving our problems, we must understand our interrelatedness through the "orbital perspective."
Nuclear fusion has long been seen as the future of energy. As the NIF now passes the breakeven point, how close are we to our ultimate goal?
If you gave me $400 and I gave you $3.15, would you consider yourself wealthier? That's a financial analogy for the supposed fusion power "breakthrough."
Wizbang innovations capture the public’s imagination, but thoughtful, incremental development is often more valuable to those in need.
A group of prominent scientists shares how research has changed them.
Inequality should be measured in terms of the time it takes for us to earn the money to buy the things we need. And everyone is getting wealthier.
Synthetic milk is not a sci-fi fantasy; it already exists.
It's on a 100,000-year timescale, though, so the next few centuries might not be so comfortable.
We cannot afford to dream about living on other worlds while we continue to destroy ours.
We want to fight invasive species. But to wage a war, you have to know who your enemy is.
They are expected to be cheaper to build and even more reliable than today’s nuclear plants.
Based on data since 2000 alone, global warming is still occurring at a whopping 7-sigma significance. How hot will planet Earth get?
Humanity is in trouble. Here's how aliens could help.
Environmental activists want us to feel "flight shame" if we can take a train, instead. But this isn't entirely realistic, even in Europe.
Overwintering is profoundly stressful for trees. So why do they bother?
Many countries just ship their plastic waste overseas.
Economic growth is more about quality than quantity.
Flashy desalination technology is more costly and cumbersome than many other solutions.
Pando is a stand of aspen in Utah that is 14,000 years old and weighs 12 million pounds. Humans threaten to end its long reign.
The monsoon rains were not always so reliable.
You might think it's impossible to run out of wind, but Europe's "wind drought" proves otherwise. And it's only going to get worse.
Most electric car charging is done at night. A grid powered mostly by renewable energy might not be able to meet demand, but there is a solution.
Short-hop regional flights could be running on batteries in a few years.
We asked 11 experts about the future of progress for humanity.
About the project The goal of driving more progress across the world—scientifically, politically, economically, socially, etc—is one shared by many. And yet, debates about the best way to maximize progress […]