Science
News and updates from the science team. Topics include genetics, infectious disease, psychology, and more.
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At the COP27 UN climate talks, Biden says America will put “our money where our mouth is.”
Climate action could be moving forward in Michigan, Maryland, Minnesota, and even Texas.
Climate change is pushing the power grid to the limit. Energy storage could help.
It’s not just the Senate. State treasurers, attorneys general, and county elections matter too.
What can COP27 accomplish as inflation and energy prices soar?
Surging cases highlight cracks in America’s health care workforce.
The Federal Communications Commission is opening a new space bureau.
To save more nature, think small.
Human challenge trials have changed the fight against malaria and cholera. Next up: tuberculosis.
The privatization of the Covid-19 response is well underway as federal funding runs out.
The vaccines, along with other preventative treatments, could change cold season as we know it.
Environmental justice programs are one target for GOP attacks.
Lula has pledged to restore the Amazon. Will it be enough?
Individual decisions can be a powerful force against climate change, but only if they’re pointed in the same direction.
Researchers are using drones, AI, and digital recorders to create a “zoological version of Google Translate.”
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The US is now committed to phasing out HFCs, a class of powerful greenhouse gases.
Oh, you think mussels are basically rocks? I’m afraid you are very wrong.
The blue state may elect its first GOP governor since 1982.
What’s behind the early surge in RSV and flu — and what’s to come.
Greenhouse gas emissions need to halve by 2030. They’re on track to rise.
A trio of researchers claimed they found likely evidence that the virus that causes Covid-19 was synthetic. And then scientists went to work picking the theory apart.
All of society benefits when workplaces include people with a range of disabilities.
We’re still contemplating the thorny brilliance of throwing soup on Sunflowers.
Toxic landfills are emblems of environmental injustice across the US. Clean energy can remake them.
Americans are terrible at recycling. Electric cars are a chance to change that.
Hybrid cars gave way to electric vehicles. Could “hybrid meat” do the same for beef and pork?
Here’s how to fix them — and what’s getting in the way.
More kids and adults are finding out that they can’t eat their favorite foods. Why?
Science communicator Philipp Dettmer bridges the gap through unexpected, engaging YouTube videos for anyone and everyone.
A third of suicides are due to pesticide consumption. The Center for Pesticide Suicide Prevention has a plan to prevent them.
Transparency, accessibility, and understandable analyses are all ways this researcher delivers science to the masses.
The beef industry is flattening the Amazon, even when companies tell you it’s not.
Americans run “mini fossil fuel plants” in their homes. It’s time for change.
A Q&A with Samantha Gross of the Brookings Institution on what OPEC’s cuts mean and where things might go from here.
Redesigned Covid-19 vaccines could save thousands of lives, but few are getting them.
Nearly 7 million women of childbearing age live somewhere with limited or zero access to maternity care.
WWF just published a grim report card for global biodiversity. Here’s what it does — and does not — tell us.
America’s STI crisis is actually a maternal care crisis.