Katherine Harmon Courage
From the Debris of Halley’s Comet
This week, chunks of the famous comet will fall to Earth in the Eta Aquarids meteor shower
A Map for Vanishing Animals
The geography of loss, in two imaginative charts
We’re All Wild Things
Welcome to the Animal Issue
The Kinship Issue
Connection is primal.
When Reality Feels Unreal
Why your life sometimes feels alien to you.
Jupiter’s Incredible Shrinking Spot
Earth’s meteorology could explain what’s behind the great red whorl’s waning.
The Hidden Butterfly Trade
How the lucrative market could spark conservation.
Who Controls Your Thoughts?
Our minds are being coerced in covert ways.
How to Find and Keep a Space Rock
NASA cosmic dust curator Marc Fries is here to explain.
Jupiter’s Io Gets a Close-Up
A new image of our solar system’s most volcanic body.