Stories by Alex Sugiura

How an experiment involving a made-up skin condition exposes the risks of increasingly popular AI medical advice

Nuclear power could enable long-term lunar missions, but NASA’s timeline may be too ambitious

What you should know about hantavirus, why PCOS is getting a new name, and how some fish hide in an unusual spot

A new book argues that disparities in fibroids, cancer and diagnosis reveal a lifelong gynecologic health crisis for Black women

Are we really falling short on protein—or is the high-protein craze overblown?

A deadly hantavirus outbreak occurs on a cruise ship, scientists warn that microplastics may be contributing to climate warming, and a retreating-glacier‑triggered landslide unleashed a massive Alaska tsunami

As peptide “stacking” takes over social media feeds, we separate the science from the hype of the Internet’s latest wellness obsession

Journalist Evan Ratliff explores what happens when AI agents are given real autonomy to build and run a start‑up from scratch

A look at what makes scorpions so deadly, why there’s hope for preeclampsia and how President Trump is gutting wind energy

Tracing how psychedelics have undergone a revival in the U.S. and what the White House’s new psychedelic push means for research

A physicist explores how poetry, pop culture and imagination help us understand spacetime and our place in the universe

What NASA’s Curiosity Rover found on Mars, how youth suicides dropped after the launch of the 988 crisis line, and what people think of AI voice clones

New research shows the global wildlife trade is rapidly accelerating the spread of animal pathogens that can jump to humans

This Earth Day three environmental experts share stories about times when environmental action succeeded in saving the planet—and explain why this can be done again

“Cocaine hippos,” underground bees, and fresh insights into aging and heart health

How a few unique traits helped modern-style birds—the last living dinosaurs—survive the asteroid apocalypse that took out T. rex and other mighty beasts

As Pokémon turns 30, we take a look at how the beloved Japanese kids’ franchise was inspired by—and has shaped—real-world science

Artemis II’s safe return from lunar orbit sparks a debate over the costs, climate effects and long‑term value of going back to the moon

Alexis Hall reimagines Melville’s classic with space whales, AI intrigue and a bold queer twist that launches Moby-Dick into an entirely new sci‑fi universe

A sharp rise in U.S. measles cases is linked to falling MMR vaccination rates and growing immunity gaps

An update on NASA’s historic moon mission, alarm over the low snowpack in the western U.S. and a move that could endanger wildlife in the Gulf of Mexico

Artemis II blasts off on a high‑stakes lunar flyby, marking NASA’s first crewed mission to the moon in decades

Humans are the only species that has chins. A recent study sheds light on how that came to be and why evolution doesn’t always follow the rules

NASA’s nuclear Mars mission, the Iran war’s carbon fallout, the looming climate cost of rebuilding and a hopeful new Lyme vaccine