The art of taking initiative
Taking initiative is one of the most valued qualities in any workplace. It is also one of the easiest to get wrong. Done well, it looks like this: you…
Year: 2026
Your first job is a classroom
You spent years in school learning how to think, write, analyze, and perform. Then you landed a job, and discovered that none of that fully prepared you…
Small reactors, big ambitions
For 30 years, nuclear energy in America has been mostly a story of decline, aging plants, high costs, and public anxiety. The next chapter looks very…
The baby who changed medicine
KJ Muldoon was five months old when doctors at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia put him on a liver transplant list. He had been diagnosed with CPS1…
China’s sun gets hotter
Scientists at China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak, mercifully nicknamed EAST, have shattered a fusion barrier that physicists once…
The floppy disk passed away 50 years ago
The 5.25-inch floppy disk, introduced in 1976 by Shugart Associates, turns 50 this year, though it hasn’t been able to celebrate in person for quite some…
The CIA’S 35-year-old puzzle was cracked by accident
In the courtyard of CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, there’s a 12-foot-tall, S-shaped copper sculpture covered in 1,800 hand-cut characters of…
The Moon: Not just for romance.
Soon it’s for shipping Here is something that sounds impossible until you think about it: it may someday be cheaper to ship minerals from the moon to…
Hormuz: The world’s most important waterway
The Strait of Hormuz is, geologically speaking, an accident. It formed roughly five million years ago when tectonic shifts cracked open a narrow passage…
A blood test for Alzheimer’s
For decades, diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease required expensive PET brain scans or a spinal tap. In May 2025, that changed. The FDA cleared the first blood…