Mountain permafrost is warming and thawing worldwide due to climate change, with ground temperature being a key control of its mechanical stability. Heat conduction is the dominant mode of heat ...

As grocery prices continue rising faster than many families can keep up with, one entrepreneur is changing the game. Their product tackles two major problems at once: saving money and keeping ...

Instagram is introducing a new tool that lets you see and control your algorithm, starting with Reels, the company announced on Wednesday. The new tool, called “Your Algorithm,” lets you view the ...

If you feel like this is a movie you've seen before, it's because you have. Boise State and UNLV will meet in the Mountain West Championship Game for the third straight season, but you don't even have ...

When I sat down with Justin Todd, the newly appointed managing director of the soon-to-open White Elephant Aspen, it was immediately clear this wasn’t going to be a conversation about hotel management ...

Few people understand Aspen’s business balancing act quite like Dr. Ian Lowell. After buying a dental practice straight out of school, Lowell learned the hard way that success in the valley takes more ...

In the heart of the mountains, we return to ancient roots by hot smoking fresh meat using only primitive tools and natural materials. This video captures the full process - from building the smoke ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

In an era dominated by social media, misinformation has become an all too familiar foe, infiltrating our feeds and sowing seeds of doubt and confusion. With more than half of social media users across ...

Every time a new slang word gets coined on the Internet, linguist Adam Aleksic is thrilled. “It’s definitely good for me in that I stay in business,” says Aleksic, who studies the origins of words and ...

It’s no secret that much of social media has become profoundly dysfunctional. Rather than bringing us together into one utopian public square and fostering a healthy exchange of ideas, these platforms ...

You’re at the checkout screen after an online shopping spree, ready to enter your credit card number. You type it in and instantly see a red error message ...