COVID Parenting Is Reaching a Breaking Point
An epidemiologist joins five Atlantic parents to discuss just how long their pandemic trade-offs can hold.
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Detective Fiction Has Nothing on This Victorian-Science Murder Mystery
William Saville-Kent was a pioneering coral photographer. Was he also hiding a grisly secret?
Our First Preview of How Vaccines Will Fare Against Omicron
The variant will change the risk landscape for the vaccinated. The question is, how much?
Omicron Has Created a Whole New Booster Logic
For a while I was on the fence about getting another shot. Then came the newest variant of concern.
A Legendary VC Has a Plan for Solving Climate Change
John Doerr’s new book, Speed and Scale: An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now, is a checklist for global action.
Why Are We Still Isolating Vaccinated People for 10 Days?
If vaccinated people are less likely to transmit the coronavirus, maybe they should be able to test out of isolation.
Plankton May Have Escaped ‘Survival of the Fittest’
Scientists have a new theory about why the ocean has so many types of plankton.
A Billion Sea Creatures Cooked to Death
This summer’s historic heat wave in the Pacific Northwest was an ecological catastrophe.
Omicron Won’t Ruin Your Booster
Sometimes, dips in immunization quality can be rescued with a little extra quantity.
Climate Advocates Are Gambling With Fate
Climate advocates finally have some power—and all the dilemmas that come with it.
The Biggest ‘Oh No’ Moment in the Solar System
Everything has to go right for the James Webb Space Telescope.
What J&J Can Still Teach Us
A vaccine’s value isn’t just in its peak performance.
We Know Almost Nothing About the Omicron Variant
Here’s everything we do.
NASA Is Practicing Asteroid Deflection. You Know, Just in Case.
A spacecraft is on its way to nudge a distant asteroid.
Let’s Talk About Brines. No, Not That Kind.
The solar system is full of brines, and they're crucial to the search for extraterrestrial life.
It’s Not You, It’s Climate Change
Warming oceans could be driving albatrosses to divorce unnecessarily.
COVID Tests Weren’t Designed for This
Testing is so complicated because we’re asking it to do too much.
Maybe Don’t Blow Up Satellites in Space
Just look at the trouble the debris from Russia’s missile test already caused for the International Space Station.
The Seven Lawmakers Who Will Decide the Climate’s Fate
Negotiations in Washington, D.C., are far more important than those in Glasgow, Scotland.
No Bird Wants to Live in a Murder Nest
Some birds use a few well-placed feathers to fake their own death and scare off intruders.
Hedges Do Way More Than Block Your View
They also link ecosystems together, supporting thousands of species.
Climate Hype Might Be the Ticket to Decarbonization
Glasgow is a spectacle. That’s kind of the point.