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Physics Nobel Awarded for Black Hole Breakthroughs

Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their studies of black holes.

October 7, 2020

The Earth-Shaping Animal Migration No One Ever Sees

A closer look at one of nature’s hidden wonders.

October 7, 2020

Imitation Is the Sincerest Form of Environmentalism

To stop destroying nature, developers are mimicking it.

The Greening of Antarctica

Few have witnessed the impact of global warming more closely than this scientist.

October 7, 2020

Kim Stanley Robinson Holds Out Hope

The science-fiction author on why climate change doesn’t have to be humanity’s final story.

October 7, 2020

Los Angeles Is Gone

In an excerpt from his new novel, the author drowns La La Land.

October 7, 2020

Scientists Win Nobel Prize for Discovering the Hepatitis C Virus

Harvey Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles Rice were awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of the cause of a major liver disease.

October 6, 2020

Does Social Media Poison Everything?

We have far less control over our behavior than we like to think.

October 3, 2020

How Psilocybin Can Save the Environment

To preserve nature, we need to open our minds to it.

September 30, 2020