One Last Thing

Hollywood’s Digital Worlds Head Deeper Into the Uncanny Valley

Cinematic visual effects are currently in a Renaissance moment. But often this impressive technology is deployed not because it is narratively...
Morgan Leigh Davies
Nov 16, 2018 3 min read

War-Gaming for Peace

Politicians, generals, and NGOs around the world regularly play through "war games." But, increasingly, these games aren't simulating war-they're simulating how...
Paul Dean
Oct 29, 2018 5 min read

Pests? Pets? How Language Changes Our Perception of Animals

Even if you don't have much interest in an overall decline in biodiversity, take heed: whether you like it or not,...
Paula Read
Oct 19, 2018 7 min read

Noise Pollution Is Making the Oceans Unbearable for Underwater Life

Every ten years, noise from commercial shipping is doubling. But studying what that noise is doing to ocean creatures in situ...
Rose George
Oct 12, 2018 4 min read

Meet Your iPhone’s Grandparent

When people say there's more power in your pocket than was used to get to the moon, they're right-but it took...
Duncan Geere
Sep 28, 2018 8 min read

Body Hacking Has a Place in Hospitals

Instead of bedroom surgeons risking sepsis, medical researchers are using augmentation to make hospital wards more, not less, human.
Andrew Williams
Sep 21, 2018 5 min read

Why Designers Are Making Real Versions of Imaginary Objects

Design fiction isn't trying to give us a road map to the future, but it does let us make a decision:...
Naomi Jacobs
Sep 14, 2018 4 min read

Apps Are Helping Keep Indigenous Languages Alive Online

Can smaller, culturally specific languages stay relevant in a modern age? Technology, in the form of language apps, may offer some...
Cal Flyn
Sep 7, 2018 4 min read

Moving Beyond the “Radio Voice”

Humans can learn to understand a huge variety of accents and dialects. So why do we usually hear the same sorts...
Hannah Harris Green
Aug 24, 2018 2 min read
A picture of the night sky, very starry

Losing the Night Sky

The brightest parts of the world are getting brighter–light pollution is on the rise around the globe.
Caroline Crampton
Aug 17, 2018 2 min read
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