The first few hires at a startup can define the company. But increasingly, not every new capability requires a new employee. AI agents are beginning to take on engineering, customer support, research, and operational work that would previously have been assigned to early team members. For founders, that creates a new question before they even
For generations, kids have learned how to ride a bike — a quintessential childhood milestone — in driveways, on sidewalks and in neighborhood streets. Now, they’re learning in school gyms and playgrounds. On a recent September day, kindergarteners at Terra Vista Elementary School in Rancho Cucamonga, California, were fitted with helmets and assigned a black-and-white
Glaciers shape the landscapes of Spitsbergen, an island of Norway’s Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean.Credit: Arterra/Sven-Erik Arndt/UIG/Getty As warnings about a potential ‘mega’ El Niño grab headlines and spread through social media, communicators face a familiar challenge: how to persuade people to pay attention to climate risks — and act. Fighting climate change takes
In a quiet summer garden, a caterpillar perches on a branch, munching serenely on leaves. A moment later it freezes. It senses danger—and just in time. From behind, a wasp approaches, sizing up its prey. Tobacco hornworm caterpillars don’t look like they have ears, and yet they’re able to sense predators such as wasps. How
My first internship gave me a simple task: Email a press release to a large list of reporters. I followed the meticulous formatting instructions from a binder, and hit send. Minutes later, a supervisor let me know that I had botched this most basic responsibility. I needed to BCC the list of recipients, something I
Western militaries are learning lessons on modern warfare through the training they provide Ukrainian troops, but one NATO commander says they need to distinguish between what Ukraine does because it works and what it does because it didn’t have a better choice. Norway is leading Operation Legio, a multinational effort to train Ukrainian soldiers at Camp
