Inside the Lab Growing Mutant Bacteria to Terraform Earth
by Matthew Ponsford
What happens when the only way to stop a desert from spreading is to engineer the soil?
0:00 / 39:09 · Narrator Charon
Daily edition
2026-08-01
Today's Crosscut
Women Claiming Space
Young girls on a Kolkata football pitch and Dalit reporters in a rural newsroom are using their physical presence to pry open doors that society wants kept shut.
Where Football is Freedom: a Kolkata Mixed-gender Team is Rewriting Rules From Margins × ‘The Good Reporter’: the Women Journalists of Khabar Lahariya Tell Their Stories on Their Own Terms
0:00 / 12:55 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
Future-gazing →
Behind the news →
Why Southeast Asia’s Just Energy Transition Partnerships Have Stalled
by James Guild and Indra Overland
Who actually takes on the financial risk when a country tries to quit coal?
0:00 / 18:50 · Narrator Vindemiatrix
For the curious →
The Route of the Wisbech and Upwell Tramway in Cambridgeshire, England
How did an obscure railway built to haul potatoes inspire a famous children's story?
0:00 / 9:21 · Narrator Algieba
Living with Leopards in the Himalayas
by Saugat Bolakhe
If restoring the forest means bringing the leopards back, how do you keep a village safe?
0:00 / 9:49 · Narrator Rasalgethi
Smart escape →
Why Your Kid is Obsessed with Squishy Toys
by Anna North
Why do kids who spend their days touching screens suddenly need something soft to squeeze?
0:00 / 10:27 · Narrator Sulafat
Can a Monkey Have a Pet?
by Sabrina Imbler
Where does the urge to care for an entirely different species actually come from?
0:00 / 10:32 · Narrator Gacrux