Science Archive
Archives for June 2022
Gas prices are high. But this isn’t the 1970s.
Covid-19 vaccines for little kids are critical even though they face lower risks.
Global warming is still threatening polar bears, but new research complicates the story.
Why is our moon so weird? Was there ever life on Mars? Big cosmic questions lurk in our celestial backyard.
Controlled burns are more dangerous but more necessary than ever.
Biodiversity loss could flatten corporate profits. Investors are scrambling to figure out which firms hold the most risk.
A Google engineer became convinced a large language model had become sentient and touched off a debate about how we should think about artificial intelligence.
Experts are worried about the overlapping risks of uncontrolled HIV and monkeypox infection.
Think less like a consumer and more like an activist.
The president is making clean energy a national security issue.
Some “climate anxiety” is the product of telling kids — falsely — that they have no future.
Firearm injuries undermine mental, physical, and financial health, even for people who’ve never encountered a bullet.
In the age of electric vehicles, higher gas mileage is more important than ever.
From chemical leaks to rampant wildfires, these are the unseen costs of Russia’s invasion.