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Science Archive

Archives for October 2024

Why do we love to scare ourselves?
Podcast
Unexplainable

This research group is studying our love for haunted houses ... at a haunted house.

By Byrd Pinkerton
Down to Earth
DNA from wild organisms could save your life — but there’s a catchDNA from wild organisms could save your life — but there’s a catch
Down to Earth

Inside the extremely messy, profoundly confusing fight over who should profit from non-human DNA.

By Benji Jones
Climate
Is climate change really making hurricanes worse?Is climate change really making hurricanes worse?
Climate

What we know — and don’t know — about how global warming influences tropical storms.

By Umair Irfan
Climate
Colonial solutions to climate change aren’t workingColonial solutions to climate change aren’t working
Climate

What Indigenous knowledge could mean in the fight to curb global warming.

By Paige Vega and Joseph Lee
The Gray Area
Your mind needs chaosYour mind needs chaos
Podcast
The Gray Area

The human mind is designed to predict, but uncertainty helps us thrive.

By Oshan Jarow
Science
Why we’ve been seeing the northern lights so often latelyWhy we’ve been seeing the northern lights so often lately
Science

Scientists are getting better at predicting the sun’s antics.

By Umair Irfan
Future Perfect
Why don’t your psychiatric drugs work better?Why don’t your psychiatric drugs work better?
Future Perfect

Billions of dollars later, neuroscientists are still struggling to address the mental health crisis.

By Celia Ford
Science
Why absolutely everyone is obsessed with Moo DengWhy absolutely everyone is obsessed with Moo Deng
Science

(And wait until you hear about Pesto the penguin.)

By Li Zhou
An alternative to antibiotics could work wonders in Africa. It isn’t being used.
The Highlight

Bacteria-eating viruses might be able to fight antibiotic resistance where new treatments are most needed.

By Jess Craig