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Jul 31, 2023

The Design issue

If everything is design, is anything? Delving into the use of AI for the design of new drugs. The future of ecological design. Prosthetics that break the mold. Plus, a postmortem on design thinking.

If everything is design, is anything? Delving into the use of AI for the design of new drugs. The future of ecological design. Prosthetics that break the mold. Plus, a postmortem on design thinking.

When we unpack its current meaning, we may find that we want—and need—to retool the word yet again.

An approach that promised to democratize design may have done the opposite.

AI automation throughout the drug development pipeline is opening up the possibility of faster, cheaper pharmaceuticals.

Ohio's archaeological heritage can be traced by finding electromagnetic remnants in soil.

Prosthetics designers are coming up with new ways to help people feel more comfortable in their own skin.

Plans for Mexico's $1 billion Lake Texcoco Ecological Park reflect a new paradigm in urban design.

For decades, coders wrote critical systems in C and C++. Now they turn to Rust.

Are lithium batteries sustainable enough to fulfill the dream of the electric-car revolution?

Nakeema Stefflbauer is bringing women from underrepresented backgrounds into the Berlin tech scene.

BTS Army and other K-pop fandoms are using the strategies they perfected by promoting their favorite bands to get political.

Ultima Online, which just turned 25, offers a lesson in the challenges of building virtual worlds.

Telecom companies have long resisted letting scientific sensors piggyback on their subsea cables—until now.