How Scientists Are Using AI to Talk to Animals

Computing

New Exascale Supercomputer Can Do a Quintillion Calculations a Second

New “exascale” supercomputers will bring breakthroughs in science. But the technology also exists to study nuclear weapons

Sarah Scoles

Climate Change

Inside the Race to Find Earth’s Oldest Ice

A global race is on to drill for the oldest known layers of Antarctic ice so researchers can peer back in time to a warmer climate to better understand the planet’s hotter future

Christian Elliott

Medicine

New COVID Antiviral Cuts Hospitalizations in Half

An injection of a type of interferon drastically reduced the risk of severe COVID in a late-stage trial

Simon Makin

History

Scientists Decipher 57 Letters That Mary, Queen of Scots Wrote before Her Beheading

In newly deciphered letters written from captivity in the late 1500s, deposed queen of Scotland Mary Stuart complained about her health and tried to negotiate her release

Stephanie Pappas

Climate Change

15 Million People Are at Risk from Bursting Glacial Lakes

At least 15 million people worldwide live in the flood paths of lakes that form as mountain glaciers melt and that can abruptly burst their banks

Chelsea Harvey and E&E News