Bob Grant
Commencement Boos for AI Platitudes
Is the next generation of college graduates justified in jeering at the coming industrial revolution?
How Did We Miss the Asteroid That Will Narrowly Miss Us?
Space still harbors surprises aplenty, even with our rapidly evolving technologies
Stop Demonizing the Birdwatchers Who Contracted Hantavirus
Landfills are actually excellent places to beef up your lifetime list
Thousands of Scientists Sign Letter to Combat Science Board’s Firing
The signatories, including more than 35 Nobel laureates, decry the “alarming attack on the ability of the US to engage in basic and applied research”
Stare Into the Heart of an Ancient Iceberg
The beauty of the blue ice belies a fragility exposed by human activity
Is This Why Science Advances One Funeral at a Time?
As researchers age, they produce less disruptive work
What I’m Watching This Weekend
Considering connecting with cephalopods and plants might be just the thing for an exhausted mind
A Century of David Attenborough
The unmistakable narrator of nature documentaries turns 100 today
The Mysterious Hantavirus Outbreak That Put the Virus on the Western Map
More than 30 years ago, in the Four Corners region of the US, an Old-World pathogen was discovered in the New World
AI Music vs. My Parents
My folks were taken in by the latest algorithmic “artist,” and it scares me
Farewell to a Giant of Botany
Peter Raven, the transformative conservationist and father of “coevolution,” passed away this week
Vaccine Hesitancy in an Era of Misinformation
The U.S. government and the right-wing media ecosystem are sowing unfounded doubt
