This could pave the way for innovative and affordable housing.

Thomas Paine’s 1776 pamphlet _Common Sense_ , advocating republican form of government in the thirteen colonies, turned him into a national hero. Few people today realize that he in fact died poverty-stricken and alone—his opposition to religious dogma in his last major work, _The Age of Reason_ , having proven significantly less popular in early American society than his writings against…

Hoppers, Pixar’s latest feature film, opens with a flashback. Mabel, who will grow up to be our teenage protagonist—a skateboard-riding environmentalist staging one-woman protests in defense of local wildlife—is just a child, staring at her classroom terrarium, home to a much-poked and prodded turtle. She waits until the recess bell rings and her classmates sprint outside before pulling the…

By feeding plants with energy and CO₂ from decomposing trash, the dome turns a landfill into an unlikely food source.