Brad Plumer
Former Senior Editor
Latest articles by Brad Plumer
“I witnessed a sight underwater that no marine biologist wants to see,” says one scientist who came back from the site.
We’ve only begun to think through how self-driving cars could eventually reshape our roads, cities, and lives — for better and for worse.
Many of them are triggered by wastewater disposal from oil and gas operations.
The country claims it’s all for “science.”
The world installed more renewable capacity in 2015 than coal or gas — the first time that’s happened.
There’s a raging debate about whether the West’s appetite for quinoa was hurting the poor in Peru and Bolivia. So these economists investigated.
Volunteers are racing to plant milkweed. But the real answer may be a clever new “AirBnB for butterfly” scheme.
In 1915, she discovered one of the most profound ideas in science. Yet universities wouldn’t hire her because she was a woman.
It’s not the Death Star after all.
1.5 billion people rely on aquifers that are rapidly being depleted. Once they’re gone, it would take thousands of years to refill them.