Did Climate Change Ground Flights in Phoenix?
Yes, but it didn’t act alone.
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China Daily / Reuters The Challenge of Fighting Mistrust in Science
Emphasizing the way scientific findings play out in people’s everyday lives could help.
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Ye Aung Thu / Getty Would You Go to an Astronomy-Themed Resort?
A vacation spot in northwestern India bills itself as one of the best places in the country to see the Milky Way.
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Vincent Kessler / Reuters The EPA Quietly Approved Monsanto's New Genetic-Engineering Technology
It’s the first time RNA interference will be used to kill insect pests.
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Mike Blake / Reuters The Peril and Promise of Peanut Butter
The spread that’s poisonous to a growing number of people also is the basis of a medical therapy that saves the lives of millions of children.
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Lisk Feng What Mormon Family Trees Tell Us About Cancer
By searching the church's famed family trees, scientists have tracked down a cancer-causing mutation that came west with a pioneer couple—just in time to save the lives of their great-great-great-great grandchildren.
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Max Whittaker / Reuters Wildfires May Be More Toxic Than Scientists Thought
Researchers had to fly a plane through a smoke plume to realize this.
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Natallia Ablazhei / Reuters Why Are Bird Eggs Egg-Shaped? An Eggsplainer
A new study points to a surprising reason for the varied shape of bird eggs—and shows that most eggs aren’t actually egg-shaped.
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Beawiharta Beawiharta / Reuters What Are Your Eclipse Plans?
We want to know how you’re celebrating the celestial event of the summer.
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Gleb Garanich / Reuters When Squirrels Attack
A cautionary tale
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NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope The Eerie Alignment of Ancient Giant Galaxies
New research using Hubble shows these massive, bright objects aligned with their surroundings as far back as 10 billion years ago.
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Alex Brandon / AP Inside the Mind of a Hypocrite
Why hypocrisy bothers us so much, and how politicians can rationalize it anyway
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Nathan Morehouse This Common Butterfly Has an Extraordinary Sex Life
For the cabbage white, sex involves sperm packages of ungodly size, genitals that double as a souped-up stomach, and an unexpected set of chewing jaws.
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Graham Roumieu What Is the Most Underappreciated Medical Invention in History?
A big question
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Alvaro Dominguez Beyond the Five Senses
Telepathy, echolocation, and the future of perception
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Christopher DeLorenzo How Vanity Could Save the Planet
Worrying about social status is a surprisingly good motivator for people to go green.
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How to Fight Superbugs
One scientist’s solution to drug-resistant bacteria
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Thomas Mukoya / Reuters The Great Thing About Mass Wildebeest Drownings
Their bodies pile up by the hundreds, nourishing the Serengeti—and contributing to the circle of life.
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NOAA The Mussels That Eat Oil
With help from bacteria, these shellfish can thrive on volcanoes made of asphalt.
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Denis Balibouse / Reuters Why People Believe Low-Frequency Sound Is Dangerous
Anxiety over “wind-turbine syndrome” stems from a decades-old misunderstanding of inaudible noise.
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Grigorita Ko / Shutterstock How Cats Used Humans to Conquer the World
Ancient DNA from 209 cats over 9,000 years tell the story of their dispersal.
