Don’t Fear the Handshake
The gesture has survived plenty of outbreaks before COVID, and it will almost certainly outlast more to come.
Dust Lakes Keep Popping Up Across the West
The demise of salt lakes threatens humans and wildlife alike.
Madagascar’s Fishers Are Stuck on Land
As a result of stormier seas caused by climate change, lifelong fishers have more than a month’s less ocean time on average than they did 40 years ago.
The Case for ‘Kraken’
Any name for the coronavirus is better than a jumble of letters and numbers.
Cities Really Can Be Both Denser and Greener
A classic urban trade-off might not be our destiny. That’s great news for the climate.
Can We Talk About How Weird Baby Mammals Are?
Kangaroos with giant arms. Bats with clown feet. Sometimes, young animals’ proportions are shockingly different from their parents’.
Suddenly, California Has Too Much Water
The state is being tossed between awful climate extremes.
The Universe Is More in Our Hands Than Ever Before
Astronomy is in a new era. It involves giant lasers.
The Ice Age Has Nothing on ‘Snowball Earth’
Five hundred million years before the dawn of dinosaurs, strange animals ruled a frozen planet.
The Military Is About to Launch a Constellation
Private companies have been sending herds of tiny satellites to orbit for years. Now the Space Force wants to join this very crowded party.
74 Things That Blew Our Minds in 2022
Where The Atlantic’s science, technology, and health reporters found wonder in a sometimes-sobering year
If You Must Cry Over a Space Robot, Make It This One
NASA’s InSight mission was the little lander that kinda, mostly could.
No One Can Decide If Grapefruit Is Dangerous
The citrus can raise the level of dozens of drugs in the body—sometimes to a worrying degree, sometimes very much not.
Future Generations Might Never Get to Kiss Under the Mistletoe
Climate change is threatening this yuletide classic.
How Long Until Alaska’s Next Oil Disaster?
The compromise that passed the Inflation Reduction Act has Alaskans braced for catastrophe.
How Glass Frogs Weave the World’s Best Invisibility Cloak
The amphibians pull off a death-defying magic trick to stay hidden while they sleep.
Boston Is Losing Its Snow Wicked Fast
New England is warming more quickly than almost anywhere else on Earth.
An Unmistakable Stain in America’s Most Pristine Rivers
Climate change is rusting Alaska’s waterways.
Mumbai Has ‘Flamingo Fever’
Every winter, thousands of flamingos descend on the city’s sewage-filled creeks.
The Luckiest Rover
Well, well, well! Look what the Martian wind blew in.
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