The best examples of science and technology writing — articles, short essays and science and tech journalism to read online
Computers
The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce by Tom Wolfe
Mother Earth Mother Board by Neal Stephenson
Creation Myth by Malcolm Gladwell
50 more articles about computers
The Internet
Forty Years of the Internet by Oliver Burkeman
Who Owns the Internet? by Elizabeth Kolbert
A Nation of Echo Chambers by Will Leitch
Sad as Hell by Alice Gregory
50 more articles about the internet
Doing Science
The Aftershocks by David Wolman
The Mouse Trap by Daniel Engber
The Kept University by Eyal Press and Jennifer Washburn
The Trouble With Scientists by Philip Ball
The Hi-tech War on Science Fraud by Stephen Buranyi
5 more articles about doing science
Time
The Quantum Origin of Time by Philip Ball
How Your Brain Can Control Time by Carl Zimmer
The Wait of the World by Dava Sobel
10 more articles about time
The Future
The Omega Glory by Michael Chabon
The Dos and Don’ts Of Time Travel
by Jim Behrle
5 more articles about the future
The Apocalypse
We’re All Gonna Die! by Gregg Easterbrook
Omens by Ross Andersen
10 more articles about the apocalypse
Design
The Pallet by Tom Vanderbilt
The Perfection of the Paper Clip by Sara Goldsmith
The Fifty-Nine- Story Crisis by Joe Morgenstern
10 more articles about design
Cities
The City Solution by Robert Kunzig
What Lies Beneath by William Langewiesche
Downtown is for People by Jane Jacobs
25 more articles about cities
Transportation
The Glory of Rails by Tony Judt
No Parking Here by Clive Thompson
The Physics of Traffic Jams by William Beaty
25 more articles about transportation
Misc.
The Really Big One by Kathryn Schulz
Authenticity in the Age of the Fake by Philip Ball
When Will the Earth Try to Kill Us Again? by Howard Lee
Why Nothing Works Anymore by Ian Bogost
The Environment
The Fate of Earth by Elizabeth Kolbert
Can Planet Earth Feed 10 Billion People? by Charles C. Mann
Planet of Weeds by David Quammen
50 more articles about the environment
Climate Change
Losing Earth by Nathaniel Rich
The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells
The Cautious Case for Climate Optimism by David Wallace-Wells
30 more articles about climate change
Psychology
Feedback Loops by Thomas Goetz
Restless Genes by David Dobbs
The Science of Why We Don’t Believe Science by Chris Mooney
Confident Idiots by David Dunning
Always On by L. M. Sacasas
Thresholds of Violence by Malcolm Gladwell
50 more articles about psychology
Linguistics
Who Decides What Words Mean? by Lane Greene
The World’s Most Efficient Languages by John McWhorter
A Linguistic Big Bang by Lawrence Osborne
35 more articles about linguistics
Mathematics
Encounter with the Infinite by Robert Schneider
Infinity Plus One, and Other Surreal Numbers by Polly Shulman
A Most Profound Math Problem by Alexander Nazaryan
Math and the Pizza Slice by Aatishh Bhatia
For Persi Diaconis’ Next Magic Trick by Erica Klarreich
Physics
How the First Gravitational Waves Were Found by Nicola Twilley
Chasing the Higgs by Dennis Overbye
What If Everything We Know about Dark Matter Is Wrong? by Katia Moskovitch
A Voyage to the Sun by Michael Paterniti
A Star in a Bottle by Raffi Khatchadourian
Outsmarting the CERNageddon by Erik Vance
Chemistry
Extreme Chemistry by Philip Ball
Small, Yes, but Mighty by Natalie Angier
Energy
The New Abolitionism by Christopher Hayes
What If We Never Run Out of Oil? by Charles C. Mann
How Do We Fix It? by Robert Kunzig
10 more articles about Energy
The Atom
Meltdown by Wil S. Hylton
Wasteland by Matt Stroud
10 more articles about the atom
Space
5,200 Days in Space by Charles Fishman
A Comet’s Tale by Tom Bissel
Greetings, E.T. (Please Don’t Murder Us.) by Steven Johnson
