Sustainable Energy

Can We Help the Losers in Climate Change?

The demise of the coal industry should start a discussion of how we will respond to the economic upheaval caused by global warming.

• by Richard Martin

Connectivity

The Next Must-Have Smartphone Feature

Google’s new location-sensing system will make augmented reality far more useful.

• by Elizabeth Woyke

Biotechnology

Why Kickstarter’s Glowing Plant Left Backers in the Dark

Do-it-yourself biologists who hit the crowdfunding jackpot have learned that genetic engineering isn’t so easy after all.

• by Antonio Regalado

Intelligent Machines

Communication Breakdown

A pair of experts mulled whether we’d ever get machines to talk, let alone think.