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The ancient Silk Road city that has a lesson for Silicon Valley

On a trip along the Silk Road, columnist Annalee Newitz discovers that ancient technology can offer us a framework for our own advances. The most important drivers of technology aren鈥檛 inventions or devices, it turns out, but the people making them

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Hellisheidi geothermal power station in Hengill, Iceland. Steam billows out of tall towers, next to a small non-descript warehouse. Pipes come out of the ground. The entire facility is surrounded by wild Icelandic mountains

Environment

How to unlock unlimited geothermal energy, anywhere we want

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Stealth drone spins so fast that it disappears

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Technology is changing our perspective on nature 鈥� at every scale

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Space

Mars astronauts may do laundry by blasting clothes with a plasma beam

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The future of robot armies is here 鈥� and it鈥檚 not what you think

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The best new popular science books of May 2026

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Health

Read the winner of this year鈥檚 Young Science Writer Award

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Mind

What to read this week: The 21st Century Brain by Hannah Critchlow

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Meta and YouTube fined $3 million for harming mental health

In a landmark trial, social media giants Meta and YouTube were found negligent and ordered to pay for harming a user's mental health. The decision could force major changes in how social platforms work

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Social media is a defective product

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The best new popular science books of March 2026

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How Ukraine became a drone factory and invented the future of war

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End-to-end encryption: Best ideas of the century

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