Year: 2018

Chemical engineer Cynthia Kartey is all about turning biomass—from leftover crop stalks to fallen trees—into something valuable. So Christmas sparked a lightbulb moment for Kartey, a Ph.D. student in the University of Sheffield, when she began to wonder what happens to peoples’ trees after the holiday season.

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The saddest meal of the year is always the one you eat right after visiting family for the holidays. Mine is usually more of a free-range fridge scrounge than an actual meal, and I always have a lot of questions: Is that leftover curry too old to eat, or am I just a coward? Who ate all my cheese? Why didn’t I stuff my…

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Obama-era regulation was supposed to curtail livestock antibiotics. But consumers are pushing Perdue, McDonalds, Tyson, Walmart, and more to change.

China and South Korea are hurtling toward a cashless future. But in Japan, where physical money is a crucial artifact, the transition is complicated.

As perplexing to diagnose as it is to treat, acute flaccid myelitis may foreshadow whether our surveillance systems could uncover a severe epidemic.

For all its faults, the internet compares favorably to earlier generations of TV and radio.

We have an insatiable demand for the universe’s physical resources, but we thrive most on the intangibles we’ve created together on our home planet.

Fourteen memorable lines, from an ethicist ruing the use of CRISPR to edit a baby’s genes, to Elon Musk’s “plan” to take Tesla private.

Indies and blockbusters, exclusives and multiplatform delights, these are the 10 standouts of the year.

Before you hand your kid an Amazon Fire tablet or Echo Dot, here are a few ways to make sure they enjoy it.