Automobiles
Did Your Catalytic Converter Get Stolen? The Pandemic—and Rhodium—Could Share Some Blame
In 2021 the search phrase “what precious metal is in a catalytic converter” saw a more than 5,000 percent increase in use. Here’s why.
Stories by Dominic Smith
Conservation
Wildfires Are Putting Giant Sequoias at Existential Risk
The future of these guardians of the forest, some thousands of years old, is not assured
Public Health
A Visual Guide to the New Coronavirus Variants
The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus seems to be suddenly acquiring mutations at a rapid rate. The most worrying variants, first discovered in South Africa and Brazil, increase the virus’s contagiousness and may even help it evade the human immune system...
Medicine
What Is Chronic Kidney Disease, and How Might It Affect You?
In the U.S., a third of Americans are at risk of chronic kidney disease, and age is a major factor. More than half of Americans older than 75 are thought to have some sort of kidney damage...
Medicine
The Clitoris: A Reveal Two Millennia in the Making
In the history of sexual anatomy, the clitoris has long been dismissed, demeaned and misunderstood. Here is a view of the clitoris you’ve probably never seen.
