Playing God With the Atmosphere
Interfering with Earth’s climate systems is becoming more possible—and less predictable—than ever.
Interfering with Earth’s climate systems is becoming more possible—and less predictable—than ever.
William Saville-Kent was a pioneering coral photographer. Was he also hiding a grisly secret?
A scientific inquiry
America has been trying to address the obesity epidemic for four decades now. So far, each new “solution” has failed to live up to its early promise.
Can humans ever break free of menopause?
The diagnosis is officially gone, but health anxiety is everywhere.
They can eat, breathe, and reproduce underwater too.
If you give a horse a trophy, will he even know he raced?
Medieval people had a lot of leprosy. So did their pet squirrels.
Scientists are debating whether concepts such as memory, consciousness, and communication can be applied beyond the animal kingdom.
The biodiversity police might just work.
It’s full of minerals that could speed along the green-energy transition.
A group of prominent scientists believes fruit flies, fish, and mollusks might experience pain and pleasure.
Fossils are quite common in this type of stone, but human-looking ones are not.
Scientists hope a gentler approach can save those in San Francisco Bay.
Pumping a clean-energy by-product into “dead zones” could restore local ecosystems.
New federal rules require public systems to measure and mitigate certain harmful man-made chemicals. Maine is already learning how hard that can be.
Scientists may have overstated eclipse risk.
A total solar eclipse is a rare opportunity to experience unadulterated communion with the cosmos.
Flying robots could offer a nonlethal way to keep wolves away from cattle.
The perspective of a child could help AI learn language—and tell us more about how humans manage the same feat.
A violinist believes he has discovered a previously unknown system of dynamics in Beethoven’s original manuscripts.