Futures
These Entrepreneurs Show Why the Bike Boom Is Here to Stay
These two entrepreneurs are working in an industry that already has a devoted community, but thanks to the pandemic bike boom, is evolving in unexpected ways
Inside the Business of Sneakerbotting
A 'botter' explains how he snags sneakers before they sell out.
Scientists Flew Sperm In Microgravity to See if Babies Could Be Born In Space
“In the future, having gametes and embryos stored in a bank outside the Earth will be very important.”
The Plan to Seed Life on Alien Planets
The 50th anniversary of "Earthrise" is the perfect opportunity to think about sending Earth's life to the stars.
Tech Billionaires Are Building Their Utopias Without Asking Us
Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are charting humanity's future, and there's little the rest of us can do to influence them.
American Capitalism Is Suffocating the Endless Possibilities of Space
In April the US House of Representatives passed an Act that says, “Outer space shall not be considered a global commons.”
We Lost Ursula K. Le Guin When We Needed Her Most
Her novels and stories spoke with the breath of her politics, a graceful and humanist blend of lyrical environmentalism, feminism, and anticapitalism.
More Than 750 American Communities Have Built Their Own Internet Networks
A new map shows that more communities than ever are building their own broadband networks to end big telecom's monopoly.
The Last Pinball Doctors
We met with the people repairing the games fueling America's pinball resurgence.
Theoretical Physicists Are Getting Closer to Explaining How NASA’s ‘Impossible’ EmDrive Works
The EmDrive propulsion system might be able to take us to the stars, but first it must be reconciled with the laws of physics.
Bitcoin Gold's Website Was DDoS'd Into Oblivion Immediately After the Fork
Bitcoin Gold's debut has some quirks.