Lisa Pedrosa · Science & Technology Writing
Dispatches from the frontier — AI, climate, medicine, and the forces reshaping our world
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85 seconds to midnight — the closest in 79 years. A field-by-field examination of the existential threats facing humanity: nuclear war, climate catastrophe, engineered pandemics, AI misalignment, water and food scarcity. Which are within our power to control? And can AI save us — or speed our destruction?
Read ArticleFrom AlphaFold 3's Nobel Prize to climate models 25× faster than supercomputers — a field-by-field account of AI's most transformative breakthroughs in medicine, materials, climate science, energy, and space.
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation regulates climate across two hemispheres. New AI-powered ocean models are revealing just how close this ancient system is to collapse — and what that means for Europe, the tropics, and global weather.
The most comprehensive survey of the threats facing our species — nuclear, climatic, biological, and technological — and the dual role AI plays as both our greatest tool for mitigation and our most dangerous accelerant.
A full biography of the astronomer, planetary scientist, and science communicator who gave the cosmos a human voice. From Venus's greenhouse effect and the Voyager Golden Record to Cosmos and The Demon-Haunted World — the complete scientific legacy of humanity's greatest storyteller.
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