EvolutionOctober 13, 2020
Why the World’s Biggest Dinosaurs Keep Getting Cut Down to Size
Debate erupts over how best to estimate the sizes of the largest creatures ever to have walked the earth
The Sciences
BehaviorOctober 12, 2020
When a Journalist Becomes a Disinformation Agent
Simulation games help newsrooms prepare for covering a chaotic election season
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PolicyOctober 12, 2020
How to Get Through This Election
Stop arguing with people about what is true. Instead ask how they are voting
OpinionOctober 12, 2020
The Whitewashing of Black Genius
Frederick Douglass, Antonio Maceo and the outrages of “racial science”
EvolutionOctober 11, 2020
Neandertal DNA May Be COVID Risk
A stretch of Neandertal DNA has been associated with some cases of severe COVID-19, but it’s unclear how much of a risk it poses. Christopher Intagliata reports.
OpinionOctober 10, 2020
In Memoriam: John D. Barrow
Remembering the maverick physicist who pioneered an “anthropic” approach to cosmology
OpinionOctober 10, 2020
Academia after COVID
The pandemic offers colleges and universities an unexpected opportunity to reinvent themselves in ways that better serve students and faculty
BiologyOctober 9, 2020
Bundles of Plant-Water-Transportation Cells Resemble Snake Eyes
A microscopic image reveals a plant’s vascular system
OpinionOctober 9, 2020
On November 3, Vote to End Attacks on Science
Choosing Donald Trump for president is choosing fiction over fact—a fatal mistake
OpinionOctober 9, 2020
Why Doubt Is Essential to Science
If people don’t understand how science works, they can’t properly understand how to think about new findings
ChemistryOctober 8, 2020
Nobelist Talks CRISPR Uses
New Nobel laureate in chemistry Jennifer Doudna talks about various applications of the gene-editing tool CRISPR.
The SciencesOctober 8, 2020
Last Chance for WIMPs: Physicists Launch All-Out Hunt for Dark Matter Candidate
Researchers have spent decades searching for the elusive particles. A final generation of detectors should leave them no place to hide