What if the future of mining looked like a farm?
Phytomining promises to extract metals for electric vehicles—not with drills and dynamite but with daisies, grasses, and biology.
Apr 2026 10
Katharine Gammon
Katharine Gammon is a freelance science writer based in Santa Monica, California. She writes for a wide range of magazines covering technology, society, and animal science.
Apr 2024 15
Designing a More Climate-Friendly Cow
The world has spent a century pumping up cows to produce more milk and meat. Can we now reinvent them to produce less damaging methane?
Jun 2019 26
This Is How Blockchain Could Upend the Grid
by allowing people to buy and sell energy in small increments from, and to, their neighbors
