The Mutated Virus Is a Ticking Time Bomb
There is much we don’t know about the new COVID-19 variant—but everything we know so far suggests a huge danger.
There is much we don’t know about the new COVID-19 variant—but everything we know so far suggests a huge danger.
The helmeted hornbill can’t procreate without a particular type of tree hole, so scientists are trying to build it artificial ones.
I’m just a kindly winter evangelist, standing in front of your outdoor restaurant table, asking you to wear layers.
The COVID Tracking Project’s extensive, daily data collection reveals the simple yet devastating ways the U.S. has failed.
How I became a cook at fire camp
Five states—Arizona, California, Florida, Tennessee, and Texas—account for 40 percent of all new cases reported in the past seven days.
Even for those who haven’t contracted COVID-19
With days left to go in the month, the number of deaths reported passed April’s high.
Nine countries have now reported outbreaks on mink farms.
Joe Biden’s victory isn’t on the list.
This year is ending with a rare cosmic alignment.
The dwindling number of sharks in the country is threatening an entire micro-economy that relies on them.
Alaska’s abandoned ships are turning into a multimillion-dollar environmental nuisance.
For the second week in a row, more COVID-19 deaths were reported in the U.S. than at any other time in the pandemic.
The coronavirus is now resurgent in some of the states hardest hit in the spring and summer.
United Airlines is betting on carbon removal as the key to climate-friendly air travel.
If phosphine is lurking in the planet’s atmosphere, the source could, just maybe, be alien life.
And what it lost in the process
Natural selection isn’t the only way species evolve.
You can’t understand the history of American energy use without them. A new visual history puts them in context.
Give it up for 1/137.
The spacecraft are still feeling the sun billions of miles from home.