Technology
Antarctic Glaciers Are Growing Unstable Above and Below...
New studies show fractures on surface ice and warm seawater melting the ice from underneath. That’s a harbinger of a coming collapse—and...
What Happens If You Smash a Boat Into a Whale?
On the show The Boys, a speedboat smashes into a cetacean and the humans emerge unscathed. Could this happen in real life?
Climate Grief Is Burning Across the American West
Climate change is making wildfires bigger, fiercer, and deadlier, fueling a new kind of despair on the West Coast—and beyond.
Mathematicians Open a New Front on an Ancient Number Problem
For millennia, many have wondered whether odd perfect numbers exist. Insight could come from studying the next best things.
Asbestos Removal Is a Hard Job, but Covid-19 Makes It Harder
Getting rid of asbestos is good for public health, but it’s risky for abatement workers, whose occupational risks make them vulnerable...
How Does a Sturgis Motorcycle Rally-Sized Crowd Affect...
That paper on the South Dakota motorcycle rally had flaws, but it's not useless. And it shows the US needs better data collection.
How Does a Sturgis-Sized Crowd Affect Covid? It's Complicated
That paper on the South Dakota motorcycle rally had flaws, but it's not useless. And it shows the US needs better data collection.
How Much Do Crowds Contribute to Covid? It's Complicated
That Sturgis coronavirus paper had flaws, but it's not useless. And it shows the US needs better data collection. Until then, better...
Blood Centers Are Barely Meeting Convalescent Plasma Demand
Despite a lack of scientific studies on its efficacy for Covid-19, interest in the treatment has surged alongside case numbers.
Those Orange Bay Area Skies and the Science of Light
Wildfire smoke turned California and Oregon skies orange. Inside that smoke was alchemy—the chemistry and physics of molecules and...
