Author: Annie Gerber
The light wasn’t the first thing people noticed. It was the noise. Earlier this year, people in parts of Indiana…
In January 1986, Voyager 2 flew past Uranus and sent back to Earth grainy images of Miranda, marking the last…
A tiny transparent blob sits in a petri dish inside an Abu Dhabi temperature-controlled lab, barely perceptible unless the light…
A junior analyst gazed at two monitors on a recent afternoon in a Singaporean trading office with glass walls. One…
Something strange is starting to take shape in the desert north of Tabuk, where the wind carries dust across the…
A private weight-loss clinic in London has an oddly serene waiting area. No running machines. There are no inspirational posters…
Last summer, standing on a rocky overlook in northern Pakistan, a routine ritual occurred almost without conscious thought. Phones came…
The long circular tunnel beneath the pine barrens in Upton, New York, came to a halt on a calm winter…
At first glance, the stone doesn’t appear to be much. The pale limestone surface of a museum display case in…
Thwaites Glacier’s size isn’t what most people notice about it right away. It’s the quiet. A huge white slab with…













