After midnight, a Chicago university’s dorm hallway is remarkably quiet. A student is sitting cross-legged on a bed behind a closed door, his phone glowing softly…
A young couple is standing in front of a chilled shelf that is stocked with bottles of kefir and jars of kimchi in a bright grocery…
A different type of fortune seeker used to be drawn to the road that leads to a sizable data center campus outside of Reno, Nevada. Prospectors…
Harvard Medical School’s hematology clinic is housed in a glass-walled hospital structure that resembles any other contemporary medical facility. Overhead, fluorescent lights hum softly. Trays of…
The London metabolic clinic’s waiting area has an oddly unremarkable appearance. Some chairs. In the corner, a water dispenser hums softly. A daytime news loop on…
Selling sunlight at night sounds almost like science fiction scribbled in the margins of a physics notebook. However, engineers at Reflect Orbital, which has a small…
For the majority of the night, Las Cumbres Observatory’s control room lights remain dim—the kind of low glow that keeps astronomers awake without blinding their screens.…
As the next speaker takes the stage, the lights in the conference hall dim slightly, and the room, which is full of government ministers, engineers, and…
The University of Alabama at Birmingham’s metabolic research lab’s hallway has white walls, humming refrigeration units, and graduate students carrying coffee, just like any other academic…
The waiting area of a busy endocrinology clinic in Cleveland appears nearly unremarkable on a weekday morning. People use their phones to browse. In the corner,…