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This Colorado community fought to save its darkness—and all that relies on it...
ON HARDSCRABBLE PASS in south-central Colorado, bighorn sheep, patches of ice, and blown-over snow regularly threaten drivers on February days. But once they come out the other side and dive down into...
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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 US intelligence program created a team of ‘Superforecasters’
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. AROUND 2011, when Warren Hatch’s job was moving money around on...
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 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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The truth about Area 51 UFO sightings, according to a local expert
Reprinted with permission from They Are Already Here: UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers by Sarah Scoles. Published by Pegasus Books. © Sarah Scoles. Arnu arrives at the A’Le’Inn in a big SUV, pulling...
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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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A CIA spyplane crashed outside Area 51 a half-century ago. This explorer...
“OXCART” WAS AN ODD NICKNAME for the plane that killed pilot Walter Ray. Oxcarts are slow, cumbersome, and old. Ray’s A-12 jet, meanwhile, was fast, almost invisible, and novel. Among the US’s first...
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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 ArticleHow a US intelligence program created a team of ‘Superforecasters’
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. AROUND 2011, when Warren Hatch’s job was moving money around on...
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 ArticleInside the little-known group that knows where toxic clouds will blow
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. WHEN A NUCLEAR-POWERED satellite crashes to Earth, whom do the...
View ArticleDARPA wants to modernize how first responders do triage during disasters
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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...
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Welcome To Your Future Energy-Efficient House
This weekend, it looked as if a Wizard of Oz-style tornado had blown through California’s Orange County Great Park, dropping 15 newly built houses in its wake. In this ad-hoc neighborhood, where the...
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The truth about Area 51 UFO sightings, according to a local expert
Reprinted with permission from They Are Already Here: UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers by Sarah Scoles. Published by Pegasus Books. © Sarah Scoles. Arnu arrives at the A’Le’Inn in a big SUV, pulling...
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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...
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