Technology
California Wants to Make Cheap Insulin. Here’s How It Could...
The state plans to roll out “biosimilars” that mimic brand-name versions at a dramatically reduced price.
The High-Stakes Race to Engineer New Psychedelic Drugs
As psychedelic therapies for mental health go mainstream, companies are recruiting chemists to create patentable versions of hallucinogens....
Your Final Resting Place Could Be a Coffin Made of Mushrooms
Loop wants to rebuild the world with ecological structures made of fungal mycelium. Its proof of concept? Living coffins.
These Vaccines Will Take Aim at Covid—and Its Entire SARS...
Scientists are developing vaccines to target the virus family that spawned Covid-19. Their efforts could thwart future variants, or...
Wildfire Smoke Is Terrible for You. But What Does It Do...
As climate change supercharges blazes, livestock and wildlife are suffering from smoke inhalation.
Can Ring Vaccination Contain Monkeypox in the US?
The strategy, which involves inoculating an infected person’s closest contacts, helped beat smallpox. But it requires good contact...
Interstate Travel Post-Roe Isn’t as Secure as You May Think
Despite the DOJ vowing to protect people's ability to travel out of state for abortion care, legal experts warn not to take that freedom...
How Do You Know a Cargo Ship Is Polluting? It Makes Clouds
Big vessels spew sulfur, which brightens clouds to produce long “ship tracks.” These emissions cause environmental damage—but also...
Life Helps Make Almost Half of All Minerals on Earth
Living organisms leave a huge geochemical imprint on the planet, a new taxonomic system reveals. It might help identify other worlds...
The Controversial Plan to Unleash the Mississippi River
A long history of constraining the river through levees has led to massive land loss in its delta. Can people engineer a way out?
