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New generations of insects are devouring Earth’s forests. Humans helped breed them—can we help stop them?

I’ve created organoids that, surprisingly, have a lot to say about how the brain works.

Meet the human cell-based models that are better, faster, cheaper—and more ethical to use—than animals.

One question for Christopher Barnes, a professor of organizational behavior at the University of Washington.

Saving reefs is possible—but there are challenges.

What it will mean to be moved by an AI’s mindless creativity.

I now realize Heisenberg and Schrödinger are less like physicists and more like therapists.

One question for Donald Green, a political scientist at Columbia University.

Riding Earth’s mighty forces in Nazaré, Portugal.

What you can’t imagine clearly, you value less.

From DJ Spooky to Herman Melville, artists illuminate the sublime, increasingly transient nature of our planet's icebergs.

How “blue bonds” turn national debt into funds for marine conservation.