FIELD NOTES from Alexander C. Kaufman

War in Iran, synthetic bacteria's real terror, tale of two Congos, and the Pirahã enigma

Beijing's billions, Puerto Rican atoms, and New York’s common ground with Trump

Atomic colas, Sino-Russian psych out, costly coal, and the real UFO conspiracy

Andrew Cuomo defends closing down NYC’s nuclear power plant

A long-shot candidate for NYC mayor goes all in for nuclear power

Montana’s ‘geological unicorn’ of rare earths takes a big step forward

An industrial purge, a nuclear surge, Electro vs. Petro states, and the bullet train to Shanghai

Geothermal startup’s drilling breakthrough shaves ‘tens of millions’ off costs

Zuck's Big Easy, critiquing minerals, gassing up New York, and the Kalash mystery

13 takeaways from Trump's executive orders on nuclear power

Can bacteria serve as ‘microscopic miners’ of the metals we need?

Lost empires, a gas boom, nuclear winter and a forgotten war