How Will We Feed 10 Billion People? The Next Food Revolution Will Be Bigger Than Farming More people, a less predictable climate, and hundreds of millions still going hungry. The challenge is to build a food system that delivers nutritious meals without exhausting the land and water it depends on. Feeding 10 billion people will require more than growing additional crops. Artificial intelligence, scientific innovation and sustainable agriculture could help reshape the future of food. A harvest can be abundant and a family can still go hungry. It happens when food prices outrun wages, when a truck never reaches the market, or when fresh produce spoils long before anyone can buy it. Meanwhile, scientists are editing rice genomes, engineers are refining agricultural robots, and researchers are trying to produce protein with microorganisms. All three stories belong in a discussion about feeding the future. But only one of them is usually pictured on a technology conference sta...

  AI Reads Life’s Hidden Signals. A Star Turns Green. Antarctica Challenges the Models. Five science stories about the surprising limits of what we know — and the tools changing that. Five research stories from October 15: machine learning in developmental biology and epilepsy genetics, viral DNA-editing enzymes, the modeled color of a white dwarf, and satellite measurements of Antarctic ice cliffs. Conceptual editorial illustration, not photographs of the experiments.

 The Moon Is Expensive. What Could It Teach Us That Earth Cannot? A science-first investigation into why we keep returning to the Moon — what its rocks reveal about Earth, what its far side could reveal about the universe, and whether those discoveries justify the enormous cost. Research and mission status checked through October 15, 2026. Scientific proposals and announced schedules are identified as such. In April 2026, four people flew around the Moon for the first time in more than half a century. During the Artemis II mission, the crew photographed unfamiliar terrain, described subtle colors on the surface and spotted five faint flashes that scientists subsequently identified as meteoroid impacts. A world we have watched from Earth for millennia was still capable of giving experienced observers something new to report. NASA published the preliminary science record in October. It is hard not to be impressed. It is also reasonable to ask what that achievement costs. Ret...