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The Ocean Is Having Trouble Breathing

A drop in oxygen levels is putting ocean ecosystems on life support.

Why I Couldn’t Get Over My Brother’s Death

Everybody told me my grief would relent in a year. It only got worse. Was there something wrong with me?

March 30, 2022

Can Cancer Be Treated by Changing Its Cells?

Tumors grow when cells lose their biological identity. A promising therapeutic might restore their sense of self.

March 26, 2022

Robots Show Us Who We Are

What can we learn from machines with imagination and culture?

March 23, 2022

The Portentous Comeback of Humpback Whales

Humpbacks are returning to pre-whaling populations with a warning about ocean ecosystems.

March 23, 2022

How Putin’s War Is Sinking Climate Science

An American journalist leaves Russia as war breaks up the international collaboration key to climate research in the Arctic.

March 18, 2022

Math’s “Oldest Problem Ever” Gets a New Answer

A new proof significantly strengthens a decades-old result about the ubiquity of ways to represent whole numbers as sums of fractions.

March 18, 2022

The Real Impact of Meteorites on Earth

Life as we know it was seeded by rocks from outer space.

March 16, 2022

The Art of Ocean Science

On board a research vessel exploring the oceans, these artists found beauty in science.

March 15, 2022

Painkillers That Don’t Kill

Scientists are getting closer to designing safer, more targeted pain drugs to replace opioids.

For This Artist, the Sea Is a Never-Ending Story

At port with Kishan Munroe, an artist from The Bahamas.

March 11, 2022

Deep Learning Is Hitting a Wall

What would it take for artificial intelligence to make real progress?

March 10, 2022