New York City’s Floods and Torrential Rainfall Explained

Policy

Government Shutdown Looms over Scientists

A government shutdown would disrupt biomedical research and clinical trials as federal experimental facilities shuttered

Jeff Tollefson and Nature magazine

Materials Science

Controversy Surrounds Blockbuster Superconductivity Claim

Will a possible breakthrough for room-temperature superconducting materials hold up to scrutiny?

Sophie Bushwick

Psychology

Stop Trying to ‘Find’ Your Passion—There’s a Better Way to Love What You Do

Recognizing that interests are malleable and can be developed can make us more resilient, open and creative

Paul A. O'Keefe and E. J. Horberg | Opinion

Artificial Intelligence

What Humans Lose When AI Writes for Us

In Who Wrote This? linguist Naomi S. Baron discusses how artificial intelligence threatens our ability to express ourselves

Brianne Kane

Fossil Fuels

EPA’s Critics Recycle Nonsense about Cost to Cut Pollution

For decades industry has claimed that curbing pollution costs too much, but the reality has proven otherwise. Here we go again, this time on power plant carbon emissions

David Hawkins | Opinion