|
![]() |
![]() F.d. FlamBloomberg |
When scientists constructed a puzzle-solving task and pitted teams of people against teams of ants, the insects sometimes proved to be the smarter...
Last month, a bungled health warning over black plastic spatulas didn’t help faltering trust in science. First, researchers warned us to throw away...
It was a bad year for good news, but only because the tumult and drama surrounding the 2024 US election and ongoing wars overshadowed some of the...
Every week or so, scientists issue another warning that the H5N1 bird flu is inching closer to exploding into a pandemic. Despite having contended...
Are there “toxic chemicals” in food killing Americans? That fear is getting lots of attention thanks to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect...
President-elect Donald Trump has used saving whales, of all things, as a reason he has promised to shut down all US offshore wind energy projects...
On the eve of Election Day, anthropology professor Alexander Hinton talked to me from a Trump rally, where he was already convinced the Republican...
When the USDA issued an announcement on Oct. 30 that the worrisome H5N1 bird flu turned up in a pig, I dropped what I was doing to read it. The...
When Covid hit the US and many public health experts were trying to act strong and confident, epidemiologist Michael Osterholm took a different...
The bird flu may be entering a dangerous new phase. The risk that any given person will be sickened or die remains low, but the risk of this virus...
Scientists have pieced together enough clues to Earth’s past climate to graph the average temperature from 485 million years ago to the present —...
Nearly half a million Americans received an unpleasant surprise this summer, according to insurance billing data: a new diagnosis of Lyme disease....
Scientists surprised themselves when they found they could instruct a version of ChatGPT to gently dissuade people of their beliefs in conspiracy...
When celebrities go public with their diagnoses of cancer or other diseases, they’re often lauded as courageous for raising awareness and making...
If you’re confronting an endless string of unread emails after a long weekend or summer vacation, try thinking of responding as a game. A status...
It’s routine practice for government officials to kill animals deemed invasive or destructive. For the most part, Americans accept this or look the...
Olympic competitors over 40 are inspiring — and less of a rarity than they used to be. Scientists say athletes with extreme staying power may be...
When Italian boxer Angela Carini reported that she had “never felt a punch like that” after conceding to Algeria’s Imane Khelif 46 seconds after...
Now that the vast majority of Americans don’t smoke, it’s hard to know what we’re supposed to do about the recent news that 40% of cancer cases are...
Mining the deep oceans for cobalt, nickel, rare earths and other metals could accelerate the world’s conversion to renewable power sources. These...
A couple of hours before a young man shot an AR-15 rifle at former President Donald Trump, killing one bystander and wounding others, I had been...