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Science

News and updates from the science team. Topics include genetics, infectious disease, psychology, and more.

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An oil executive is leading the UN climate summit. It’s going as well as you’d expect.

By Li Zhou

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Our love of orcas is making them miserable

By Tove K. Danovich

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Why psychedelics produce some of the most meaningful experiences in people’s lives

By Oshan Jarow

US life expectancy no longer catastrophic, now merely bad

By Keren Landman

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Christopher Fuchs is revolutionizing how we understand our quantum reality

By Bryan Walsh

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Gul Dolen wants to harness psychedelics for healing

By Sigal Samuel

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David Kaplan is building an academic community for the future of meat

By Kenny Torrella

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Heidi Williams is steering the science of innovation toward progress

By Oshan Jarow

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Kristie Sullivan is quietly, and effectively, fighting animal testing

By Kenny Torrella

Mud libraries hold the story of the Earth’s climate past — and foretell its future

By Byrd Pinkerton
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How bats carry deadly diseases without dying

By Kimberly Mas

What our brain chemistry says about free will

By Sean Illing

The US is normalizing the cruelest mass killing method to stop bird flu

By Marina Bolotnikova
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Something weird happens when you keep squeezing

By Adam Cole

How to catch a scientific fraud

By Byrd Pinkerton

I’m getting malaria to help eradicate it (and you can too)

By Dylan Matthews

The mental health crisis among doctors is a problem for patients

By Keren Landman

These strange underwater animals could save our lives. If we don’t destroy them first.

By Benji Jones

The surprising scientific weirdness of glass

By Brian Resnick

It’s not just Paris. There’s a “global resurgence” of bedbugs.

By Benji Jones

A rare “ring of fire” eclipse is happening Saturday

By Brian Resnick

There’s a morning-after pill to prevent sexually transmitted infections

By Keren Landman

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El Niño is nowhere near done wreaking havoc on the world’s weather

By Umair Irfan

The true story of how humans are searching for intelligent alien life

By Robin George Andrews

We know where the next big earthquakes will happen — but not when

By Umair Irfan

Why you’ve never heard of this common eating disorder behavior — and why that’s a problem

By Daryl Austin

It’s clearer than ever that we’re pushing the Amazon rainforest to its dreaded demise

By Benji Jones

The lifesaving, Nobel Prize-winning discovery that almost didn’t happen

By Kelsey Piper

Turns out the government can fine you for trashing space

By Sara Morrison

The “new abnormal”: The rise of extreme flooding, briefly explained

By Li Zhou

9 ocean mysteries scientists haven’t solved yet

By Brian Resnick

Scientists will unleash an army of crabs to help save Florida’s dying reef

By Benji Jones

A NASA asteroid sample just landed on Earth. It holds clues about the origins of life.

By Ellen Ioanes

The bizarre new frontier for cell-cultivated meat: Lion burgers, tiger steaks, and mammoth meatballs

By Jude Whiley

I visited a beautiful coral reef in 2022. What I saw there this summer shocked me.

By Benji Jones

10 of the biggest — and smallest — scientific mysteries

By Brian Resnick

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Florida has become a zoo. A literal zoo.

By Benji Jones

The terrible paradox of air pollution and climate change

By Rachel DuRose

America’s most iconic coral reef is dying. Only one thing will save it.

By Benji Jones

Why are so many useless cold medicines littering pharmacy shelves?

By Keren Landman

Lead poisoning could be killing more people than HIV, malaria, and car accidents combined

By Dylan Matthews

Is there anything Ozempic can’t do?

By Dylan Scott

New Covid vaccines are coming out. The CDC wants you to get one.

By Rachel DuRose