For decades, the pipes that brought water to LeAnne Walters’ house did their job unnoticed and safely. But in summer 2014, that changed.
Continue reading Scientists Now Know Exactly How Lead Got Into Flint’s Water
For decades, the pipes that brought water to LeAnne Walters’ house did their job unnoticed and safely. But in summer 2014, that changed.
Continue reading Scientists Now Know Exactly How Lead Got Into Flint’s Water
The emergence of new automotive technologies and practices like ride-sharing, on-demand services, and the introduction of autonomous capabilities seems like it would have a diminishing effect on future automotive sales—but studies suggest we may actually see the opposite.
Continue reading Why Cars Might Have To Be Replaced More Often In The Future
SOMETIME WITHIN THE next five to seven years, a section of Niagara Falls will go dry. This isn’t a case of the great western drought creeping east, but rather New York’s plan to, for lack of a better term, turn off the famed waterfall. The most astonishing part of the whole idea is that it’s not nearly as crazy, difficult, expensive, or novel as it may sound.
Continue reading New York Is Going to Turn Off Niagara Falls. Here’s How
No need to be alarmed, this is just an extremely fascinating infrastructural feature—which also happens to look extremely beautiful under the right circumstances.
Continue reading Don’t Get Too Close or This Hydrological Eye of Sauron Will Suck You In
You’re aware that your cell service comes from cell towers. And that your mapping app is made possible by GPS satellites. And that wifi signals deliver your fail videos. But the sight of that invisible world is breathtaking.
Continue reading This App Lets You See the Cell Towers, Wifi Signals, and Satellites Around You
The Subway, the El, the Tube, the Métro: Trains have been transporting humans around cities since 1863. But too many public transit systems still run like they’re stuck in the 19th century. That needs to change.
Continue reading 5 Ideas That Could Change the Future of Trains
The single cable supporting the barely two-year-old eastern span of San Francisco’s Bay Bridge could be facing very real corrosion dangers, the lead designer of the $6.4 billion project warns.
Continue reading Lead Designer of SF Bay Bridge’s New Span Is Worried It’s Already Corroding