From high-speed battering rams to gravity tractors, the technology exists to protect the planet. The question is whether humanity will act in time — and in concert.
Govert Schilling | Jun 4
Built to track enemy submarines, the Navy’s underwater listening network inadvertently revealed that whales may be singing across entire oceans.
David Rothenberg | Jun 1
A barn owl’s ability to hunt by hearing alone relies on exquisite variations in the structure of its feathers.
Lorna Gibson | May 28
Notes on Kenneth Hale, the Brahma-bull-riding theoretical linguist who spoke 50 languages.
Samuel Jay Keyser | May 14
Writers and machines have been in a quiet standoff for decades. ChatGPT has just made it impossible to ignore.
W. Patrick McCray | Apr 27
From evolution’s first mutations to the rise of synthetic genomics, we are charting life the way Magellan once mapped Earth.
Adrian Woolfson | Apr 23
In Ohio, a familiar spring ritual is arriving earlier — and with it, quiet signs of a changing climate.
Theresa Crimmins | Apr 20
Animal-to-human organ transplants promise a future where survival no longer depends on another person’s death.
Joshua D. Mezrich | Apr 16
Crafting a spacesuit demanded perfection from seamstresses to gluers to engineers — every stitch could mean life or death.
Nicholas de Monchaux | Apr 9
Seemingly harmless data tweaks are undermining the integrity of the entire field. We must define the problem to prevent it.
Thomas Plümper and Eric Neumayer | Mar 23
