Facilities that suck carbon dioxide out of the air could be powerful weapons for fighting climate change. But their deployment requires a huge wartime-style investment.

What if things escalated? What if communications were knocked out? What if cyberwar was just the start? A note about this special six-part series.

“We've got a ship in duress that hasn't sent out a distress signal. Something doesn't add up.”

Mega-sites need a lot of personnel and pose problems of access and equity. But other vaccination campaigns might point us in the right direction.

DALL-E drew laughs for creating images of a daikon radish in a tutu. But it builds on an important advance in computer vision with serious applications.

The storied outdoor brand has introduced a new trail running shoe with speedy—and controversial—carbon-fiber plates in the soles.

And getting rid of it will take a lot of work.

The company's latest subscription product combines outdoor fitness with podcasting, though you'll need an Apple Watch to enjoy it.

Like its spiritual predecessor, Amazon’s new show is full of secrets. Unlike it, the series doesn’t get bogged down in solving mysteries.

This scenario is very similar to a classic physics problem—but with more Martian armor.

The flagship (and expensive) Elevate has rotating drivers for when you play Dolby Atmos-supported movies or shows.

The studies are in, and for many patients convalescent plasma should be out. So why do doctors having such a hard time letting go?

Machine learning programs trained with patients’ own reports find problems that doctors miss—especially in Black people.

Scientists find that cyanobacteria cause sediments on glaciers to clump, thus absorbing more sunlight. It's not great news for fans of lower sea levels.

The country has turned inward more than ever, leaving the true impact of the pandemic a mystery.

Three-dimensional computer simulations have solved the mystery of why doomed stars explode at all.

Zombie versions of Adobe’s troubled software can still cause problems in systems around the world.

Plus: A security company creeper, Biden’s cyberteam, and the rest of this week’s security news.

The line between browsers and password managers is blurring.

Using sea charts and satellites, the effort will trace how the kelp beds are changing in response to global warming and commercial harvesting.

And what does that mean for making a little wire LED man light up?

Now is a good time to grab some sweet Switch games, Apple’s Magic Keyboard, or an Apple Watch Series 6 at a discounted price.

The denizens of the WallStreetBets subreddit helped push the flailing stock to dizzying heights—while a short seller alleged an accompanying harassment campaign.

Catch up on the most important updates from this week.

They're more trusted and better distributed than pharmacies, and they're built for emergencies.

No one was calling it a pandemic yet, at least publicly. Then came more troubling evidence about transmission, as the US ignored warning signs.

The computer ceased production in 1993, but fans are still making games for it.

During her confirmation hearing, the Treasury nominee said that blockchain-based financial networks are “a particular concern.”

Well, that and the fact that @POTUS now follows Chrissy Teigen.

This week, we round up tips for staying organized, energized, and mostly sane as we all ride out the rest of the pandemic.

This is not the solution to our climate problems; it's a sweetheart deal for Big Ag.

The legendary developer’s new memoir brought back poignant memories of one of his most famous games—and of the hours I played with my dad.

With Donald Trump no longer the heart of online discourse, there's room for a powerful shift.

Researchers and airlines that obsessed over efficiency have spent the past year worrying about safety too.

Plus: The moonshot’s launch, health care for the maskless, and a new era’s inaugural meme.

Nick Sawhney's “Bernie Sits" puts Sanders anywhere on Google Street View.

Facebook has to decide whether to give the ex-president his bullhorn back. It won’t make that call itself.

The price tag might still make you blink, but Samsung’s new flagship has one of the best cameras in a smartphone.

Scientists say they've got 20-million-year-old evidence of giant worms that hunted in pretty much the most nightmarish way possible.

Using voice-activation tech and nature-inspired soundscapes, these space are designed to give medical workers some respite from the Covid-19 front lines.

Spirituality is only one tool in this community leader's toolkit for bringing people closer together. Character sheets are another.

China produces as many artificial intelligence researchers as the US, but it lags in key fields like machine learning. The government hopes to make up ground.

Biden’s first-day actions signal that he’s serious about global warming. But he’s got to make up for four years of lost time.

The far-right platform still hasn’t found a US-based home. Where it lands could have serious consequences for its users’ privacy.

Few people could witness Joe Biden and Kamala Harris get sworn in in person. Instead, we watched (and tried to make sense of it all) online.

Faces of the Riot used open source software to detect, extract, and deduplicate every face from the 827 videos taken from the insurrection on January 6.

Booting Trump didn’t set a precedent. From Yelp to Uber to Airbnb, platforms regularly ban users and content, but too often behind the scenes.

It’s cold and you’re probably still quarantined. Time to get reading. Start with these tales of reimagined histories and cloned partners.