Technology
The Terrible Consequences of Australia’s Uber-Bushfires
Scientists calculate that the unprecedented wildfires burned 37,500 square miles. For already-endangered species, the conflagration...
What Does It Mean to Say a New Drug ‘Works’?
Covid-19 is a new disease. Remdesivir is an experimental drug. How can scientists tell if it’s successful while the world shifts around...
How Gödel’s Proof Works
His incompleteness theorems destroyed the search for a mathematical theory of everything. Nearly a century later, we’re still coming...
The World Is Noisy. These Groups Want to Restore the Quiet
Silence is increasingly scarce, even in national parks. Now, scientists and environmentalists are working to calm the noise for the...
Colleges Prepare to Test Thousands of Students for Covid-19
As campuses reopen, the logistics of preventing an outbreak are posing thorny questions: Who to test? How often? And will students...
How to Trick Your Brain into Remembering Almost Anything
Four-time USA Memory Champion Nelson Dellis and psychological scientist Julia Shaw explain how to boost your memory skills.
Hydroxychloroquine Still Doesn’t Do Anything, New Data...
Two more studies prove that the much-hyped antimalarial doesn’t treat Covid-19.
Vantablack? Meh. Meet the Ultra-Black Vantafish
Scientists have found that some fishes absorb up to 99.956 percent of the light that hits them. The weird deep-sea menagerie just...
Nuclear Tests Have Changed, but They Never Really Stopped
75 years after the first explosive nuclear tests, now outlawed, sophisticated virtual testing allows American physicists to understand...
Don't Talk About Covid-19’s ‘Waves’—This Isn’t the Spanish...
It’s not useful to think about coronavirus coming in synchronized surges. This is a long, lingering epidemic that is only just getting...
