Science
News and updates from the science team. Topics include genetics, infectious disease, psychology, and more.
To fight the cruel meat industry, veterinarians have to fight their own profession.
Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field Monday night. It’s rare, but a direct hit can cause cardiac arrest.
Make a home energy audit your resolution for 2023.
Will Biden and Trump remain the frontrunners? Will Putin remain in charge of Russia? Will China start a war? These and other forecasts of the year to come.
Plus a couple that are halfway in between.
The US can tackle methane emissions and deliver on global financing.
America’s aging energy infrastructure and reliance on fossil fuels pushed local power grids to the brink.
The US doesn’t have enough infectious disease doctors — and the situation is about to get worse.
US life expectancy got worse during Covid-19, and then kept getting worse.
The EPA’s draft “social cost of carbon” analysis opens up a knotty discussion about US lives versus lives abroad.
The head of the world’s largest environmental organization explains what it will actually take to stop the extinction crisis.
A new fleet of electric mail trucks heralds the next phase of the EV revolution.
Surprise! This environmental story is actually not depressing.
At the UN Biodiversity Conference in Montreal, world leaders agreed to a historic plan to halt biodiversity loss.
There aren’t any monoclonal antibody drugs that can treat the latest Covid-19 variants.
The biggest missed opportunity of the lame-duck Congress, explained.
Lasting change is going to take more than just good hand hygiene.
Want to protect the planet? First, we need to agree on what “conservation” means.
Oceans are under threat. Can cell-cultured fish help?
That fusion announcement is worth getting hyped about, but practical fusion is still a long way off.
The Orion capsule splashed down on Sunday, wrapping up the historic Artemis 1 mission.
Why we shouldn’t give up on reducing the climate impact of sports.
Companies say they want to acknowledge environmental impacts. Republicans are mad about that.
Here’s why you’ve been hearing so much about ChatGPT.
At COP15 in Montreal, officials will try to hash out a deal to protect animals and ecosystems. It won’t be easy.
And health care systems are getting absolutely crushed ... again.
A new project aims to tackle the “replication crisis” by shifting incentives among scientists.
Should coal, oil, and natural gas still be part of the answer for the world’s poorest in an era of climate change?
“Immunity debt” can explain this year’s eye-popping cold and flu season — but it can also be dangerously misinterpreted.
This is what the future of mental health could look like.
More exports, and the lingering effects of extreme weather, could affect bills.
We still aren’t ready for the next one — but a new report offers a blueprint for ending pandemics.
Putting humans on the moon is more political than you might think.
Covid-19 vaccines helped stem the pandemic, but public skepticism about them could doom future vaccines.
COP27, the climate change meeting in Egypt, finally got a deal on one of the most critical outstanding issues.
The trend reveals the importance of data sharing between state, federal, and tribal health authorities.
Nebraska’s next governor made his fortune in bacon and racked up pollution complaints along the way. Now he’s turning his sights on alternative meat.
The environmental movement has a buzzword problem.
The rocket finally launched, equipped with scientific experiments to test how deep space affects our bodies.
Over 100 pages of documents show how the space agency handles social media and discussions about Ukraine.