Taking the “right to repair” one step further, a Viennese repair bonus is going national — and keeping thousands of items out of the junkyard

Technology exists to scan people’s devices for evidence of child abuse. Should we use it?

The growing carbontech industry is capturing CO2 from the air and turning it into everything from bras to vodka to fresh baked bread.

At 15 years old, Gitanjali Rao has half a dozen inventions to her name. Now she wants to reinvent the world of science itself.

The most popular voice assistants don’t recognize a single native African language. Now thousands across the continent are donating their voices to change that.

With user-generated data, the My Safetipin app helps women and kids avoid streets that are dark, desolate or dominated by men.

Biologists can’t spot them. Technology doesn’t detect them. But nothing escapes The Nose.

A grassroots movement enlists Africans to write their own story on one of the world’s biggest websites.

How a rule-breaking joyride by an MTV icon helped make Norway the world’s EV capital.

The EU is restricting products designed to be unfixable, forcing companies to change their ways.

No modern methods or machinery required — just crops cultivated by hand in incredible, climate-proof quantities.

When people who disagree are forced to work together, something magical happens.

Swing voters. Covid converts. Some people seem highly persuadable. Why does that bother the rest of us?

How hackers taught the government to embrace division-resistant politics.

As awareness about their ecological importance grows, a movement to grant insects the same protections as more majestic creatures is gaining steam.

A heroic effort is underway to record the global lockdown’s ripple effects — before they disappear.

At a forensics lab in Germany, a team of sleuths is busting illegal timber traffickers and keeping our forests safe.

Satellites are tracking thousands of fishing vessels in real time to make sure your mahi mahi is just as sustainably sourced as the label claims.

The toilets in your home today are radically different than the ones of the 1950s—or even the 1990s—and may be the reason western cities are still habitable.

Like a mirage, an ethereal woodland kingdom rises from the Egyptian sands to fight desertification

Major cities have signaled a commitment to curbing private autonomous vehicles, and their transportation systems are already reaping the benefits.

Carbon emissions are falling in the countries that emit the most CO2, the result of conservation efforts, more renewable energy and strong climate policies.

To change the misperception that scientists are all old white guys in lab coats, thousands of women scientists are banding together to make their voices heard.

In clinics and hospitals around the world, doctors and nurses turn household objects into medical instruments. MIT’s Little Devices Lab is giving them the tools to build even better.