The global race for better batteries has never been more intense. Electric vehicles, drones, and next-generation aircraft all depend on high-performance energy storage—yet the traditional approach to battery R&D is struggling to keep pace with demand.
Innovation and investment alone won’t solve the problem, unless we compress the timeline. Speed is now the defining barrier between potential and impact. Even as
Pick up an August 2025 issue of Vogue, and you’ll come across an advertisement for the brand Guess featuring a stunning model. Yet tucked away in small print is a startling admission: She isn’t real. She was
Language is the original technology, the tool we’ve all used to coordinate with each other for thousands of years. Our success in life—both professionally and in relationships—depends on it.
I write for a living, so you’d think I’d have language down. I don’t. I constantly find myself knowing a word exists but not being able to think of it. What am I supposed to do?
You might, in some circumstances, be able to use a thesaurus for this—just look up a word that means the sa
Over 80% of Middlebury College students use generative AI for coursework, according to a recent survey I conducted with my colleague and fellow economist Zara Contractor. This is one of the fastest technology adoption rates on record, far outpacing the 40% adoption rate among U.S. adults, and it happened in less than two yea
It’s been a bad year for password managers. First, Microsoft announced earlier this summer that its popular Microsoft Authenticator app would be discontinuing its password manager feature and would revert to being an app that focused solely on multifactor authentication codes.
Now, Dropbox has announced that it is killing its pa
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For years, some of the world’s most productive web searches have had something in common: They begin at Google and end at Reddit.
In some cases, that’s because the person doing the searching has added “reddit” to their query, deliberately pushing material from
As demand for artificial intelligence technology boosts construction and proposed construction of data centers around the world, those computers require not just electricity and land, but also a significant amount of water. Data centers use water directly, with
Federal auto safety regulators are investigating why Tesla has repeatedly broken rules requiring it to quickly tell them abou
