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The 2024 Solar Eclipse Was Awesome: Highlights America experienced a rare celestial treat on Monday. Here’s how it unfolded.
By Intelligencer Staff
How NASA’s Chief Scientist Manages Climate Anxiety “We understand our planet better than we have before and continue to learn about it every day. So I focus on the hope that science brings.”
By Sarah Sloat
How to Understand the Baltimore Bridge Collapse Here’s some of the most insightful commentary from engineers, maritime experts, political pundits, and locals about the disaster and what it means.
extraterrestrials
Mar. 31, 2024
Have We Already Found Alien Life? Multiple pieces of evidence exist that we may someday recognize as the first real proof we’re not alone in the universe.
By Jeff Wise
Susan Butts Is Living Your Childhood Dream Job The paleontologist at the Yale Peabody Museum manages millions of fossils, some of which are a billion years old.
what’s in a name?
Aug. 16, 2023
Harrison Ford Doesn’t Get Why They Keep Naming ‘Terrifying Critters’ After Him “I spend my free time cross-stitching,” Ford said. “I sing lullabies to my basil plants.”
By Zoe Guy
social studies
July 31, 2023
How Trauma Became America’s Favorite Diagnosis Psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk’s once controversial theory of trauma became the dominant way we make sense of our lives.
By Danielle Carr
climate change
July 15, 2023
Can Extremely Reflective White Paint Save the Planet? Probably not, but geoengineering in some form is going to be necessary to address climate change.
By Eric Levitz
Mad Scientists Nowhere is the lab-leak debate more personal than among the experts investigating the origins of COVID.
By James D. Walsh
just asking questions
Jan. 11, 2023
Is the New Alzheimer’s Drug a Serious Breakthrough? Nobel laureate Thomas C. Südhof on how the benefits and limits of Lecanemab have changed his understanding of the disease.
By Benjamin Hart
the environment
Jan. 9, 2023
Great Job, Everybody, We Saved the Ozone Layer The ozone layer is on track to recover to its 1980 values around most of the world within a few decades.
By Chas Danner
Could Magic Mushrooms Be the Drug to Finally Cure Eating Disorders? For young patients, lasting treatment can feel elusive. Psychedelics could change that.
By Megan Zhang
Not Even Dark Chocolate Is Safe Dark chocolate can contain potentially unsafe levels of lead and cadmium, according to a new report.
By Olivia Truffaut-Wong
what we know
Dec. 13, 2022
How Big Is the U.S. Fusion Breakthrough? The Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has reportedly achieved a historic milestone in nuclear fusion.
By Chas Danner
Volcanoes Are So Hot Right Now There have been some stunning eruptions at volcanoes on multiple continents in the past few days. No, the world isn’t ending.
By Chas Danner
extremely online
Nov. 18, 2022
I Can’t Shut Up About How Rats Can Dance A new study found that rodents have rhythm.
By Mia Mercado
much to think about
Aug. 5, 2022
Big Sean Vexed by Big Questions Science has confirmed what the rapper has long sensed is true: Earth’s rotation is speeding up.
By Claire Lampen
just asking questions
Aug. 1, 2022
Have Scientists Been Wrong About Alzheimer’s for Decades? A talk with Nobel laureate Thomas C. Südhof about a scandal rocking the world of Alzheimer’s research and how conceptions of the disease are changing.
By Benjamin Hart
respect the hands
June 14, 2022
Jurassic World ’s Raptor Hands Make SenseIt’s the continued misunderstanding of velociraptors that’s ridiculous.
By Anne Victoria Clark
NASA Wants to Send Nudes to Space Houston, are you flirting with me?
By Mia Mercado
What We Know About Second COVID Booster Shots Americans over 50 are now eligible for an extra dose of COVID-19 vaccine. But experts are still debating who should get one.
By Chas Danner
The Pseudoscience That Could Kill Women A Missouri anti-abortion bill is a symptom of an increasingly extreme movement.
By Sarah Jones
What to Expect From the COVID Variants to Come The evolution of the coronavirus remains difficult to predict, and future strains could be at least as dangerous as Omicron and its predecessors.
By Jeff Wise
Sorry About the Deadly Pandemic, Here’s a Worm Scientists have named a new flatworm after COVID which is … cool, I guess.
By Mia Mercado
Give Me the Goth Space Diamond Sotheby’s is expected to sell the 555.55-carat black diamond for at least $6.8 million.
By Mia Mercado
How to Understand the Powerful Volcanic Eruption Near Tonga Volcanologist Jess Phoenix walks us through the science of Saturday’s explosive natural event in the South Pacific and what might happen next.
By Paola Rosa-Aquino
medical breakthroughs
Jan. 10, 2022
A Pig’s Heart Has Been Successfully Transplanted Into a Human for the First Time The 57-year-old man who received a heart from a genetically modified pig is still doing well three days after the operation.
By Chas Danner
smooth brain
Jan. 6, 2022
By Mia Mercado
studies show
Jan. 5, 2022
Don’t Call Skateboarding at 50 a Midlife Crisis A new study claims skateboarding can help middle-aged people through depression, stress, and loneliness.
By Danielle Cohen
Can Anything Stop the Omicron Wave? At this point, America has limited options.
By David Wallace-Wells
extreme weather
Dec. 12, 2021
What Is the Link Between Climate Change and the Historic Tornadoes? Climate scientists say there is growing evidence a warming world could make spates of intense tornadoes like Friday’s more common or more intense.
By Paola Rosa-Aquino
disappointment
Dec. 9, 2021
By Mia Mercado
bloody hell
Sept. 1, 2021
Maybe It’s Moderna, Maybe It’s Menopause How medicine’s failure to take periods seriously fuels vaccine hesitancy and misinformation.
By Annaliese Griffin
Come at Me, Bro Bennu the asteroid will reportedly whiz by in 2135, which is … not soon enough.
By Claire Lampen
killers among us
Aug. 9, 2021
By Claire Lampen
how i get it done
July 12, 2021
How Cosmologist Janna Levin Makes Space for Big Ideas When she’s not teaching, writing, running the Science Studios at the Pioneer Works cultural center and captaining her digital magazine, The Broadcast .
By Jane Starr Drinkard
vanity projects
July 11, 2021
By Rebecca Alter
When Can I Buy a Ticket to Space? A Guide for Non-Billionaires. Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson will soon go where few tourists have gone before. Here are the costs, the risks, and when the rest of us can join them.
By Paola Rosa-Aquino
just asking questions
June 29, 2021
How the Pentagon Can Improve the Way It Studies UFOs Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb lays out the steps U.S. officials should take to ensure science is at the center of our revamped approach to UFOs.
By Matt Stieb
good riddance
June 7, 2021
Naomi Wolf’s Anti-Vaxx Tweets Just Got Her Account Suspended Among other wild falsehoods, the author called vaccines a “software platform that can receive uploads.”
By Mia Mercado
Sounds to Me Like There Are Definitely Aliens A new government report says it can’t prove UFO sightings aren’t aliens, so …
By Mia Mercado
Grimes Is Giving Us a Lot to Think About Can you decipher these comments on communism and AI?
By Mia Mercado
Bad News: Cicadas Pee a Lot As if we haven’t suffered enough.
By Mia Mercado
Biden Joins the COVID Lab-Leak-Theory Debate The president says that U.S. intelligence is considering the theory and he wants them to push harder to answer where the coronavirus originated.
By Chas Danner
The COVID Lab-Leak Hypothesis Just Got a Big Credibility Boost A group of experts published an open letter in Science calling for a new investigation into the origins of the coronavirus.
By Chas Danner
The Cicadas Are Here Trillions of small insects, recognizable by their buzzing mating call, are starting to emerge for the first time in nearly two decades.
By Amanda Arnold
death from above
May 9, 2021
Congratulations, You Weren’t Crushed by Space Debris Today That enormous Chinese space rocket has finished its uncontrolled fall back to earth.
By Chas Danner
Hopefully You Won’t Be Crushed by Space Debris This Weekend Experts don’t know exactly where a 23-ton Chinese rocket part will land.
By Mia Mercado
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