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The Green New Deal, explained

By David Roberts

This is an emergency, damn it

By David Roberts

Measles is back because states give parents too many ways to avoid vaccines

By Julia Belluz February 22

It is absolutely time to panic about climate change

By Sean Illing February 22

Is lab-grown meat actually worse for the environment?

By Sigal Samuel February 22

Steve Irwin said, “My mission ... is to save wildlife.” He did.

By Brian Resnick February 22

Have smartphones really destroyed a generation? We don’t know.

By Brian Resnick February 21

These volunteers get malaria on purpose so we’ll know how to fight it

By Kelsey Piper February 21

“Zombie deer disease,” a mad cow-like infection spreading in the US, explained

By Julia Belluz February 21

Astronomers are asking kids to help them contact aliens

By Sigal Samuel February 21

Why we can’t look away from before-and-after pictures

By Cheryl Wischhover February 20

The FDA says buying young people’s blood won’t stop you from aging

By Chavie Lieber February 19

Karl Lagerfeld lost 92 pounds using a diet he called a “sort of punishment”

By Julia Belluz February 19

“I tried ketamine to treat my depression. Within a day, I felt relief.”

By Alice Levitt February 19

Depictions of mental illness can save lives. But A Star Is Born gets one thing very wrong.

By Jennifer Michael Hecht February 19

We have a new global tally of the insect apocalypse. It’s alarming.

By Brian Resnick February 18

There’s good news about the flu vaccine this year, especially for kids

By Julia Belluz February 18

Biologists are trying to make bird flu easier to spread. Can we not?

By Kelsey Piper February 17

How one scientist coped when AI beat him at his life’s work

By Sigal Samuel February 15

Mudslides, snow, and flash floods: an atmospheric river has soaked California

By Umair Irfan February 15

California has 149 million dead trees ready to ignite like a matchbook

By Umair Irfan February 15

No, the Green New Deal won’t threaten the grid

By Umair Irfan February 15

“Patient influencers” are the latest Instagram trend, and they want to sell you drugs and devices

By Suzanne Zuppello February 15

A California coalition is tackling one of the hardest, unsexiest parts of climate policy

By David Roberts February 15

The disturbing hypothesis for the sudden uptick in chronic kidney disease

By Julia Belluz February 15

Trump’s second presidential physical exam, explained

By Julia Belluz and Eliza Barclay February 14

False Positive

By Joss Fong and Dion Lee February 14

NASA’s Opportunity rover is dead. Here’s what it saw during its 14 years on Mars.

By Brian Resnick February 14

FEMA Administrator Brock Long steps down

By Emily Stewart February 13

Oxytocin, the so-called “hug hormone,” is way more sophisticated than we thought

By Brian Resnick February 13

This Mediterranean diet study was hugely impactful. The science has fallen apart.

By Julia Belluz February 13

The history of dating reveals how consumerism has hijacked courtship

By Eliza Barclay February 13

Watch how the climate could change in these US cities by 2050

By Umair Irfan and Kavya Sukumar February 12

The limits of ancestry DNA tests, explained

By Brian Resnick February 12

Vaping gone viral: the astonishing surge in teens’ e-cigarette use

By Julia Belluz February 11

Ever tried telling a teen to stop Juuling? These experts have a tip.

By Elsa Pearson and Austin Frakt February 11

The human feet that routinely wash ashore in the Pacific Northwest, explained

By Umair Irfan February 11

The exercise “recovery” industry is largely bogus

By Julia Belluz February 9

Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge was the first scientist to isolate caffeine

By Umair Irfan February 8

Why your desk job is so damn exhausting

By Brian Resnick February 8

Netflix gives Gwyneth Paltrow’s health hogwash a bigger platform with new series

By Julia Belluz February 7

There’s now an official Green New Deal. Here’s what’s in it.

By David Roberts February 7

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