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Crying Wolf in an Age of Alarms

The human costs of faulty disaster warnings.

May 15, 2024

We Came from Lowly Mud 

How Earth’s habitable continents arose—and survived.

May 14, 2024

The Case for Scientific Transculturalism

Life will stand a better chance against climate change if we mix big- and small-picture thinking.

May 14, 2024

How a Hurricane Brought Monkeys Together

This island of macaques rebuilt their social networks after calamity.

May 13, 2024

The Astonishing Ways Animals Use Social Networks

Lee Alan Dugatkin on his 3 greatest revelations while writing The Well-Connected Animal.

May 13, 2024

A Buffer Zone for Trees

How frosty pockets in valleys could help protect some trees against climate change.

May 10, 2024

A Scientist Walks Into a Bar …

How comedy plays on our emotions to fight misinformation.

May 9, 2024

How Melting Ice Has Altered Time-Keeping

Climate change could upend how we synchronize global clocks forever.

May 9, 2024

Discovering the First Other Earths

Inside the hunt for habitable planets.

May 8, 2024

Color-Coding Crops for Climate Change

Novel ways to use gene-editing to make farming more sustainable.

May 8, 2024

What Counts as Consciousness

Neuroscientist Christof Koch on human minds, AI, and bacteria.

May 6, 2024

The Curious Life of a Singing Fish

Plainfin midshipman fish migrate from the deep sea to spawn—and then things get weird.

May 6, 2024