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Ideas, energy and environment
The AI Revolution Is an Electricity Story
Artificial intelligence is usually discussed as software, but its hardest limit may be the power systems required to run it.
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Ideas, energy and environment videos
Visual essays examining artificial intelligence, energy, climate and environmental claims.
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Ideas, energy and environment
Rice, Warming and a Claim Under Scrutiny
A provocative challenge to a widely repeated claim about modern warming rates and rice production.
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Ideas, energy and environment
Bad Weather Through Deep Time
Earth has always produced extreme weather. What can the distant past tell us—and what can it not tell us—about risk today?
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Ideas, energy and environment
The Crystals of the Nevada Nuclear Test Site
An extraordinary material formed when a nuclear test fused tower, equipment and desert into something new.
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Ideas, energy and environment
Music to the Ears
Nature, movement and music offer a quiet interval between the arguments and mysteries.