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Here’s a quick tour of where you can find satellite images, plus some free, fairly simple tools that anyone can use to create time-lapse animations from satellite images. If you want to track changes in the Amazon rainforest, see the full expanse of a hurricane or figure out where people need help after a disaster, it’s much easier to do with the view from a satellite orbiting a few hundred miles above Earth.

A new generation of hospitals is going green thanks to more thoughtful architecture. Hospitals and life sciences labs expend tremendous amounts of energy saving lives. Now, architects are devising new ways to make sure their energy usage—which represent 4.4% of the world’s total carbon emissions—is as green as possible. With these types of buildings, owners, operators, and tenants tend to be mission-driven and science-oriented, so working in a space that cuts emissions (and the health problems they create) has become an increasingly important client demand.

Algae blooms can increase the rate at which Arctic ice melts. But a newly discovered virus might stop the blooms from spreading. Is it a clever solution or dangerous geoengineering? A lot of seemingly outlandish ideas have been floated as ways to cool the rapidly warming planet in recent years. Cloud brightening?

It’s easy to assume that casual watercooler conversations aren’t important—or even that they’re a waste of time. Here’s why that’s incorrect. One feature of working in a physical office is that you bump into colleagues all the time. If you find yourself with a coworker in the break room, on the elevator, or waiting for a meeting to start, it’s natural to have a brief conversation about a topic unrelated to work.

Once it is scooped, ice cream doesn’t last long, melting away if you don’t eat it quickly enough. So too, do ice cream shops and trends, which can be built up into magnificent displays only to melt in the heat, dripping down your wrist into a puddle on the ground. These days, it’s rich and small-batch ice creams with a dizzying array of flavors and toppings that attract the most attention — something you can read about in our list of 8 ice cream shops worth screaming about this summer — and although Denver has lost a few cold-treat purveyors, like Ice Cream Riot, many more have newly opened or added locations or offerings. Here’s what’s new in ice cream in metro Denver for 2024. High Point Creamery opened its fourth location on 29th Avenue in the Central Park neighborhood in spring 2024.

Freitag’s new F700 Arrow and F708 Firebird bags expertly use the design strengths of their source material in a new way. Each one of Freitag’s new upcycled bags is unique, from the color of the handles to the pastel patterns of the material and the stitching that holds it together. That’s because each bag is made out of real airbags.