Earthquakes Are a Special Kind of Nightmare
Morocco is facing the particular trauma that comes from watching the world around you crumble in an instant.
Oyster Insomnia Is Real
City lights are keeping the animals awake all night.
America Is Telling Itself a Lie About Roadkill
Your car may have just run over the last of an endangered species.
The Big COVID Question for Hospitals This Fall
With universal masking mandates almost entirely gone, hospitals now have to decide when—or if—to bring requirements back.
America Could Be in for a Rough Fall
The weather is about to get even weirder.
‘Biological Recycling’ Would Be Truly, Truly Amazing
Plastic is tough to break down and reuse. What if enzymes could do the job for us?
How Can You Save What’s Already Gone?
As Lahaina’s religious leaders look to rebuild, they draw from memories of a more distant past.
This Hurricane Season Is Unprecedented
A very strange climate drove Hurricane Idalia. Scientists can’t predict whether more storms like it are coming.
Fall’s Vaccine Routine Didn’t Have to Be This Hard
The most effective way to increase vaccine uptake is to make getting shots easy. So why aren’t we doing that?
The Most Believable Reality TV Is Set on Mars
Stars on Mars—a show about celebrities solving made-up problems in space—gets one thing about astronaut missions very, very right.
America Is Finally Spilling Its Shipwreck Secrets
Historic shipwrecks are under threat from scallop nets. The first step is telling fishermen where they are.
Is Salsa Gazpacho?
Is gazpacho salsa?
What Happens When the Heat Repeats?
Two years later, the intertidal zone of the Pacific Northwest coast is still recovering from a devastating heat wave.
Islands Have a Disaster-Response Problem
What Puerto Rico portends for Maui
Don’t Underestimate the Japanese Beetle
America is playing whack-a-beetle with crop-eating pests.
Maui’s Fire Risk Was Glowing Red
Unprecedented disasters are not unpredictable.
Give Invasive Species a Job
Wild horses could play a role in preventing wildfires, if we only gave them a chance.
Life Can’t Get Much Hotter Than This
The world’s most heat-adapted creatures could be subverting their own evolution.
Black Holes Swallow Everything, Even the Truth
The most mysterious objects in the universe are fundamentally unknowable.
The Sriracha Shortage Is a Very Bad Sign
Chili peppers thrive in hot and dry conditions. But even they have their limits.