David Pogue (YC ’85) is not your average CBS Sunday Morning science and technology correspondent. He’s written or co-written more than 120 books, given five
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Image courtesy of Rebecca Moore. Imagine if your great-great-grandmother passed down a story that warned your family to avoid an enemy. Now, let’s propose that
Image courtesy of IIT. Movies like Her, The Iron Giant, and Chappie reveal a trend in the media of pondering the social relationship between robots
Image courtesy of Arlynn Aquino. Of the natural disasters that disrupt families and livelihoods, none makes a larger impact than the mighty flood. Globally, damages
For Anna Albright (YC ’23), caring about our climate is a way of life. It all began in her high school environmental science class. As
During the Great Depression in 1929, immigrant workers became scapegoats for economic hardship, accused of taking jobs away from native-born Americans. After the tragedy of
On a cold November day in 1957, Laika made history as she rode into orbit on a Soviet spaceship, withstanding tremendous acceleration to become the
How do supermassive black holes swallow up matter and help drive the galaxies of our universe? This fundamental question in astrophysics has yet to be
He had not been able to speak for sixteen years. At the age of twenty, the patient, known as BRAVO-1, experienced a severe stroke resulting
Over millennia, the egg has evolved to become one of the most adaptable shapes in nature: strong, small enough for safe delivery, and capable of
These days, it’s hard to escape the reality of climate change in daily life. Carbon dioxide is one of the main greenhouse gas drivers of