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This vibrating weight-loss pill seems to work—in pigs
So far this “electroceutical” has only been tested in a handful of young Yorkshire pigs, but with promising…
The Download: 2023’s worst tech failures, and the end of online anonymity…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s…
The biggest technology failures of 2023
Plastic proliferation Plastic is great. It’s strong, it’s light, and it can be pressed into just about any…
Gene editing had a banner year in 2023
It really shouldn’t have come as a surprise. Perhaps no technology has more power to transform medicine, and…
Is this the most energy efficient way to build homes?
Passive houses now account for less than 1% of multifamily construction. It’s a marriage of efficiency and…
How 2023 marked the death of anonymity online in China
In reality, it’s already impossible to be fully anonymous online in China. Over the years, to implement a…
The Download: recreating the early internet, and 2023 in climate data
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of…
2023 is breaking all sorts of climate records
It’s a lot to make sense of, so for this last newsletter of 2023, let’s take a look back at the year, and let’s…
Recapturing early internet whimsy with HTML
The HTML Energy community advocates understanding HTML for what it quite literally is: a language. And it…
The Download: good climate news, and promising pixels
Scientists are loudly warning that the world is running out of time to avoid dangerous warming levels. The…