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Once the Uranium Capital of the World, Moab, Utah, wants to unload its...
ON A GIVEN DAY in the area around Moab, Utah, visitors may view snowcapped mountains while gazing through a red-rock-desert arch that curves above a Grand-rivaling canyon. Or they might fish a river...
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Cave worms could hold the secrets to a better life
THE AIR INSIDE SULPHUR CAVE in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, is full of poisonous hydrogen sulfide and lethal levels of carbon dioxide. The cavern, blocked off with a three-board fence, has hosted few...
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Can these government efforts crack the code for DNA storage?
In Overmatched, we take a close look at the science and technology at the heart of the defense industry—the world of soldiers and spies. THE TOWN SLOGAN of Bluffdale, Utah, is “Life Connected.” That’s...
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Alien-looking balloons might be the next weapon in the fight against wildfires
ONE MORNING IN JUNE, Daniel Roa and Max McLaughlin pull over near the dusty intersection of County Road 80C and Deadman Road in northern Colorado. Their white pickup truck, which their employer got on...
View ArticleAn inside look at the radiation-sensing material that’s on the Pentagon’s radar
In Overmatched, we take a close look at the science and technology at the heart of the defense industry—the world of soldiers and spies. BACK IN 2008, the Navy had a problem with an aging version of...
View ArticleHow a video game could help us better understand nuclear war
In Overmatched, we take a close look at the science and technology at the heart of the defense industry—the world of soldiers and spies. YOU COULD PLAY Elden Ring, or maybe you’d rather try out God of...
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These 3D printed engines can power space-bound rockets—or hypersonic weapons
In Overmatched, we take a close look at the science and technology at the heart of the defense industry—the world of soldiers and spies. ON THE COLORADO PLAINS just below the Rocky Mountains, near the...
View ArticleThis online atlas is a goldmine for amateur intelligence sleuths
In Overmatched, we take a close look at the science and technology at the heart of the defense industry—the world of soldiers and spies. ON THE WEBSITE Soar.Earth, you’ll find a map of the world that...
View ArticleAn enormous radio telescope may soon be a powerful tool for planetary defense
In Overmatched, we take a close look at the science and technology at the heart of the defense industry—the world of soldiers and spies. A HIGH VALLEY in the mountains of West Virginia is home to one...
View ArticleThis communications company is a lifeline for far-flung operators
In Overmatched, we take a close look at the science and technology at the heart of the defense industry—the world of soldiers and spies. YOU’RE STANDING at the top of a mountain, elated to have...
View ArticleHow corporations helped fuel the big business of spying
In Overmatched, we take a close look at the science and technology at the heart of the defense industry—the world of soldiers and spies. YOU MAY NOT HAVE HEARD of the National Reconnaissance Office,...
View ArticleIs It Time To Phone E.T.?
In our search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), we humans have mostly just waited, and listened, for aliens to contact us. But in February, policymakers, philosophers, futurists, and...
View ArticleDARPA wants to modernize how first responders do triage during disasters
In Overmatched, we take a close look at the science and technology at the heart of the defense industry—the world of soldiers and spies. IF A BUILDING COLLAPSES or a bomb goes off, there are often...
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On surviving—and leaving—prison during a pandemic
In early 2020, Alexis Triplett watched the news coming out of China, her gaze set on a TV inside her cell in La Vista Correctional Facility in Pueblo, Colorado. People over there were getting sick...
View ArticleThe Alien Whisperer: Jill Tarter On 38 Years Of Hunting For E.T.
In the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), people typically seek messages, not send them. Think Jodie Foster in the movie Contact as an alien signal pulses in her headphones. The...
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As drought looms, could this team of scientists prove cloud seeding works?
THE RESEARCHERS HAD ALREADY DONE FOUR FLIGHTS, earlier in January, before they saw the first hints of what they were looking for. The crew of meteorologists, atmospheric scientists, and students had...
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How Jill Tarter helped bring SETI’s alien-seeking Allen Telescope Array to life
The following is an excerpt from Making Contact: Jill Tarter and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence by Sarah Scoles. It is 1 a.m. on March 10, 2014, in Northern California, and Jill Tarter’s...
View ArticleFranck Marchis is connecting amateur astronomers to extraterrestrial researchers
When SETI researcher Franck Marchis was a kid in France, he looked at Saturn for the first time through a telescope and saw the planet magnified from a speck in the night sky to a beautifully ringed...
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On surviving—and leaving—prison during a pandemic
In early 2020, Alexis Triplett watched the news coming out of China, her gaze set on a TV inside her cell in La Vista Correctional Facility in Pueblo, Colorado. People over there were getting sick...
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In all likelihood, someday the sun will knock out the grid
Let’s talk about the weather. John Kuehn Shortly after sunset on June 18, 2013, a woman drove her minivan onto Brighton Street in Belmont, Massachusetts. Her GPS told her to turn right. But the...
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