Science Archive
Archives for May 2022
Faulty infrastructure is only a symptom of a larger problem.
Births went up by 1 percent last year, but don’t think of it as a baby boom.
Health experts are optimistic monkeypox can be contained. Here’s why, and where it could go wrong.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX finally has some competition.
Turning carbon credits into crypto won’t fix climate change.
The omicron variant of Covid-19 has branched out into more transmissible and evasive versions.
Butterflying during the “insect apocalypse” is complicated.
More than a century after they arrived, invasive sea lampreys still threaten the Great Lakes’ $7 billion fishing economy.
Hundreds of cases of the rare viral disease have been detected in Europe and North America. Experts are cautiously concerned.
She says Shell “blatantly doesn’t care” about climate change.
What researchers are still learning about in-person instruction during Covid-19.
The average fridge in the US consumes more electricity in a year than an average person in dozens of countries.
The FDA made a reasonable decision — but one that still shows much of what’s wrong with our current system for emergency approvals.
How do we cool people without heating up the planet?
In Florida, a surging number of space launches has created a new type of travel headache.