Meredith Rutland Bauer
clean water
Take a Dip Into the Internet of Lakes
Smart lakes and smart forests are helping researchers understand how we’re hurting nature—and what we can do to fix it.
Meredith Rutland Bauer
8.6.17
virtual reality
With VR History You Can Hear the Bombs Drop in Trafalgar Square
VR engineers are wading through archival records and code to recreate our most important moments.
Meredith Rutland Bauer
6.2.17
quantum supremacy
IBM Just Made a 17 Qubit Quantum Processor, Its Most Powerful One Yet
IBM, Google and others are racing to achieve quantum supremacy.
Meredith Rutland Bauer
5.17.17
humans of the year
Christine Curry Is Helping Expecting Mothers With Zika Prepare For an Uncertain Future
The Florida doctor is one of the leaders in the fight against the debilitating disease.
Meredith Rutland Bauer
4.12.17
Green Buildings
Chicago Says It Will Make All City Buildings 100 Percent Renewable By 2025
The Windy City wants to switch its municipal buildings entirely to clean energy in eight years.
Meredith Rutland Bauer
4.11.17
humans of the year
São Paulo’s Traffic Jams Are So Bad, It Made Mariana Avezum Design a Hyperloop Pod
The 27-year-old is still motivated by the legendarily bad congestion she experienced during her youth. Now she's helping build an alternate form of transit.
Meredith Rutland Bauer
3.24.17
100% Renewable
Meet the Republican Mayor Fighting for Renewable Energy in Louisiana
Greg Lemons says energy independence is a Republican value too.
Meredith Rutland Bauer
3.21.17
Motherboard Homepage
This Nine-Year-Old Is Still Fighting For Clean Water In Flint, USA
The fourth-grade activist has met with three US presidents, celebrities, and more in her quest to save her hometown's water supply.
Meredith Rutland Bauer
3.15.17
humans of the year
Nine-Year-Old Mari Copeny Is Still Fighting For Clean Water In Flint
The fourth-grade activist has met with three US presidents, celebrities, and more in her quest to save her hometown's water supply.
Meredith Rutland Bauer
3.14.17
Farming in 2017
The Most Useful Tool on the Modern Farm is Data
Data miners are now courting the agriculture industry in a big way.
Meredith Rutland Bauer
3.7.17
Silicon Valley, Florida
Florida Wants a Slice of the Tech Industry
But the state's niche markets might be getting in each other's way.
Meredith Rutland Bauer
3.2.17
sunny-side up
Farms Are Turning to Solar as Electricity Prices Soar
Solar energy is now cheaper than fossil fuels for many large farms.
Meredith Rutland Bauer
2.22.17
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