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just asking questions
May 6, 2021
Suzanne Simard Changed How the World Sees Trees The pathbreaking ecologist on what she’s learned about interspecies collaboration, tree sentience, and nature’s resilience.
By Robert Moor
New Physics Just Dropped (Maybe) A new experiment suggests a potential shakeup of a scientific theory of how the universe functions.
By Paola Rosa-Aquino
The Story of One Dose Inside the sprawling operational puzzle of bringing the Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccine to the public.
By Jeff Wise
LEAVE HER ALONE!! Scientists have proposed sending a bunch of the sperm to the moon. Has she not been through enough?
By Madeleine Aggeler
Pfizer COVID Vaccine Is Highly Effective After Just One Dose, Study Finds An Israeli study found the first jab reduces infections by 75 percent, bolstering the case for delaying second doses to stretch out supply.
By Paola Rosa-Aquino
Enterprising Little Robot Lands on Mars NASA’s Perseverance rover has arrived on the Red Planet. Please clap.
By Claire Lampen
climate crisis
Feb. 16, 2021
Yet Another Terrifying, Deadly, Once-in-a-Lifetime Storm Extreme weather in Texas and elsewhere in the U.S. has left at least 20 dead and millions without power. This is our new normal under climate change.
By Bridget Read
Herd Immunity May Be Out of Reach — But Normality Is in Sight The virus may keep circulating indefinitely, but the vaccines appear robust enough to turn all COVID variants into minor ailments.
By Eric Levitz
public health
Feb. 1, 2021
How Worried Should We Be About the Coronavirus Variants? The Cut spoke with Michael Worobey, a professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona who studies the evolution of flu viruses.
By Amanda Arnold
Finally, Science Has Allowed Us to Gaze Upon a Dinosaur’s Orifice A paleontologist says the newly discovered dinosaur butthole specimen is “perfect” and “unique.”
By Amanda Arnold
investigations
Jan. 4, 2021
The Lab-Leak Hypothesis For decades, scientists have been hot-wiring viruses in hopes of preventing a pandemic, not causing one. But what if …?
By Nicholson Baker
coronavirus
Dec. 30, 2020
America’s Vaccine Rollout Is Already a Disaster Vaccines should bring the end of the pandemic, but we’re bungling their distribution just as badly as the rest of our coronavirus response.
By David Wallace-Wells
A Dress Made Out of Beautiful Green Algae The One X One incubator program marries science and fashion.
By Andrew Nguyen
The ‘Ugliest Orchid in the World’ Doesn’t Need Your Approval The new flower, discovered in the forests of Madagascar, might not be described as a looker, but she brings so much more to the ecosystem.
By Amanda Arnold
coronavirus
Dec. 14, 2020
‘I Feel Like Healing Is Coming’ The surprisingly emotional experience of watching someone receive one of the first COVID-19 vaccines in the U.S.
By Bridget Read
The First COVID-19 Vaccines Are Going Out Today Pfizer is sending out 2.9 million doses this week.
By Amanda Arnold
how i get it done
Dec. 14, 2020
How A Vaccine Whisperer Gets It Done As the founder of the Vaccine Confidence Project, a nonprofit monitoring and addressing public trust in vaccines, Heidi Larson has never been busier.
By Katie Heaney
Well, at Least We’re Less Disgusting Now The coronavirus has certainly changed our hygiene habits for the better.
By Amanda Arnold
coronavirus news
Nov. 9, 2020
Pfizer Says Its COVID Vaccine May Be 90 Percent Effective The news is exciting, but experts warn that the findings haven’t been peer-reviewed yet.
By Amanda Arnold
Astronomers Discover … Earth?? A horrifying hell planet whipping through space? Sounds very familiar.
By Madeleine Aggeler
climate crisis
Oct. 28, 2020
But Wait, There’s Also Terrible Climate News The warming sea may now be releasing huge deposits of methane — which heats the atmosphere at a rate 80 times stronger than carbon dioxide.
By Bridget Read
how i get it done
Oct. 26, 2020
How a MacArthur ‘Genius’ Scientist Gets It Done Polina V. Lishko’s work could change the future of birth control.
By Katie Heaney
coronavirus news
Oct. 23, 2020
The FDA Has Officially Approved the First Coronavirus Treatment The anti-viral drug remdesivir has passed the agency’s regulatory standards.
By Amanda Arnold
let them live
Oct. 16, 2020
Let the Paleontologists Cyber If They Want An overzealous filter prevented paleontologists from using words like bone, pubic , and stream at an online conference.
By Madeleine Aggeler
Remdesivir Has ‘Little or No Effect’ in Reducing COVID Deaths The WHO found that the drug — which Trump was treated with — does not reduce mortality rates or time spent in the hospital.
By Madeleine Aggeler
Two Women Have Won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna have been recognized for “rewriting the code of life.”
By Hannah Gold
What If They Make a Coronavirus Vaccine and Nobody Takes It? There are already clear signs that the public is suspicious about corners being cut.
By Stephen S. Hall
climate crisis
Sept. 9, 2020
We’re Getting Far Too Used to Living in Hell The dull horror of watch the world burn over social media.
By Bridget Read
movie review
Aug. 20, 2020
Tesla Is a Bizarre, Bewitching Anti-BiopicSee Ethan Hawke sing “Everybody Wants to Rule the World.”
By Bilge Ebiri
Is the Moon Fed Up With Us? She’s retreating from the Earth at a rate of an inch and a half per year.
By Bridget Read
The Good (But Not Great) News About T-Cells and Herd Immunity Two areas of research offer tentative hope that meaningful natural protection from COVID-19 may come sooner than expected.
By David Wallace-Wells
extremely online
Aug. 5, 2020
This Scientist Twitter Drama Is Wild MeTooStem founder BethAnn McLaughlin admitted to inventing a colleague and saying she’d died of COVID-19.
By Hannah Gold
for your health
July 29, 2020
Here’s the Latest Good (and Bad) News About the Coronavirus A vaccine is on its way — but for many COVID-19 survivors, the disease’s symptoms appear here to stay.
By Eric Levitz
Just Show Us the Aliens Already Please, no more vague hints from the government that UFOs are real.
By Bridget Read
Hell Runneth Over Look at this black molten river coursing through Arizona.
By Claire Lampen
the national interest
July 20, 2020
American Death Cult Why has the Republican response to the pandemic been so mind-bogglingly disastrous?
By Jonathan Chait
Scientists Discover the Hungriest Hole New research shows that the universe’s fastest-growing supermassive black hole is gobbling up one sun per day.
By Kelly Conaboy
climate crisis
July 6, 2020
The Arctic Is On Fire, and We Should all Be Terrified “We always expected the Arctic to change faster than the rest of the globe. But I don’t think anyone expected the changes to happen this fast.”
By Bridget Read
coronavirus
June 26, 2020
Here’s the Latest Good (and Bad) News About the Coronavirus Humans may not retain long-term immunity to COVID-19. But if we do, there’s reason to think we’re closer to herd immunity than we’d thought.
By Eric Levitz
We May Have Dozens of Contactable Alien Neighbors According to scientists, there may be at least 36 of them, in fact.
By Claire Lampen
Secrets Near the Earth’s Core: Revealed? A team of geophysicists recently found evidence of what lies around the Earth’s core.
By Kelly Conaboy
what in the universe
May 21, 2020
Sorry, NASA Did Not Confirm a Parallel Universe How a headline led to rumors about a parallel universe where time goes in reverse.
By Kelly Conaboy
another earth
May 15, 2020
Unfortunately, We Cannot Move to Super-Earth The recently discovered planet does sound tempting though.
By Kelly Conaboy
the national interest
May 2, 2020
The Secret to Making Liberal Argument Sound Dumb: Pretending Trump Doesn’t Exist Rich Lowry’s critique of the liberal defense of science is a perfect specimen of anti-anti-Trumpism.
By Jonathan Chait
And Now, a Science Lesson With Blue Ivy “Wash your hands extra and please stay home.”
By Claire Lampen
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