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Colorado’s landfills generate as much pollution as driving 1 million cars for a year

Proposed rules would force operators to measure methane emissions, fix leaks, and, in some cases, install gas collection systems.

Remember the banana peels, apple cores, and leftover pizza you recently threw in the garbage? Today, your food waste—and your neighbors’—is emitting climate-warming greenhouse gases as it decomposes in a nearby municipal landfill.

Design can make you feel things

Lyse Martel has spent her career thinking about how color and materials can shape a person’s experience of an object.

Lyse Martel is a Berlin-based “Color, Materials, and Finish” (CMF) designer and strategist in the mobility and consumer electronics industries. Her work combines craftsmanship and emerging technology to shape design strategy, drive material innovation, and create new sensory experiences. 

Lyse is fascinated by design’s power to shape how people feel and act. She believes design can foster emotional connection and wellbeing at a time when AI and automation are making their way into many new consumer product experiences, from the car to the living room. Below, Martel explores the emotional dimension of circular design and how the CMF field is evolving to meet the global challenges of circularity and sustainability. 

Is a master’s degree worth it? A new survey of hiring managers casts doubt

Grad school might sound tempting, but the payoff to your career (and bank account) depends on a few factors.

Hiring managers aren’t convinced that master’s degree holders perform better than candidates with two years of work experience, but they are still willing to pay them more.

Shimmers, floating toolbars, and radical transparency: Here’s what iOS 26 could look like

Apple needs something eye-catching right now. A new user interface, likely called ‘solarium,’ is about to turn heads.

In less than two weeks, on June 9, Apple will kick off its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), in which it will showcase the next versions of the operating systems that power its myriad devices. The centerpiece of that event will be iOS 26, the soon-to-be renumbered operating system that powers the company’s flagship product, the iPhone.

Managers rethink ecological scenarios as threats rise amid climate change

People tasked with managing landscapes identified three key ingredients for constructing credible ecological scenarios.

In Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks in California, trees that have persisted through rain and shine for thousands of years are now facing multiple threats triggered by a changing climate.

The lab of the future: An artificial superintelligence for biology

AI has the potential to speed up and improve drug discovery, making risky projects more agile.

The lab as we know it today is being transformed by how we think about medical research and drug discovery, as well as the intersection of artificial intelligence and biotechnology. As someone who has transitioned from a doctor to a tech CEO, I’ve witnessed firsthand how our mindset around medicine and innovation needs to evolve to keep pace with the accelerating changes in technology. In my journey, one of the most important lessons I’ve learned is: You can be too smart for your own good.

Marketing in an age of economic uncertainty

Rougher waters don’t sink all boats. Here are strategies for volatile times.

Let’s get this out of the way: We constantly live in uncertain times. Periods of tranquility are actually an aberration, if not an illusion.

Taylor Swift finally owns it all: Every album, every song, every era

After years of fighting for her rights, Swift has bought back the master recordings to her first six albums—and everything that came with them.

Swifties have plenty to celebrate on Friday as Taylor Swift announced that she now owns the master recordings of her first six albums after years of trying and failing to buy them.

Elon Musk leaves his official role in Trump’s White House—but not really

Though Musk’s status as a special government employee has ended, both he and Trump suggested he’ll continue to exert influence.

Elon Musk wrapped up his time with President Trump’s administration on Friday with a lengthy press conference during which both men heaped praise on one another in what seemed like an attempt to shut down any suggestions of friction between them.

Trump can revoke status of 500,000 immigrants, Supreme Court says

The justices granted a stay that lets DHS end protections for immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela—sparking a blistering dissent from Justice Jackson.

Following a divided Supreme Court ruling Friday, more than half a million people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela stand to have their legal immigration status in the U.S. revoked. The decision follows another recent ruling clearing the way for President Trump’s no-holds-barred immigration crackdown and puts close to a million people at risk of imminent deportation, even as the case continues its way through the courts.