Month: March 2022

Every year, thousands of whales strand — meaning that they wind up trapped on beaches or in shallow waters — and it’s really hard to “The curious case of the ancient whale bones”

When SpaceX launches its first all-civilian crew into space later this fall and takes a multi-day trip circling the Earth, humanity can follow along online “Streaming space tourism is the new reality TV”

In 2017, an evolutionary biologist named R. Alexander Pyron ignited controversy with a Washington Post commentary titled “We don’t need to save endangered species. Extinction “The case against the concept of biodiversity”

Michael Miranda had been fully vaccinated for over four months when he tested positive for the coronavirus. “I stared at my phone for a few “What it feels like to get Covid-19 after being vaccinated”

There’s a cliché that has popped up for years in discussions of climate and weather disasters: You can’t blame any individual event on climate change. “Climate change worsens extreme weather. A revolution in attribution science proved it.”

There’s a growing consensus among health experts: Covid-19 may never go away. We’ll likely always have some coronavirus out there, infecting people and, hopefully only “We have to accept some risk of Covid-19”

Last month, at the start of a fourth Covid-19 wave in the US, a nurse in a Seattle-area intensive-care unit announced her resignation on Twitter. “Why it’s so hard to be a nurse in America, according to two nurses”

Vera Rubin didn’t “discover” dark matter, but she put it on the map. Dark matter is a wild concept. It’s the idea that some mind-boggling “Astronomers were skeptical about dark matter — until Vera Rubin came along”

Every several years — sometimes just once a decade — when the rains come in just the right amounts and at just the right times, “Solar farms are often bad for biodiversity — but they don’t have to be”

The Covid-19 pandemic has changed, and with it, so has the effectiveness of the vaccines. The bottom line remains the same: The mRNA vaccines from “What we actually know about the vaccines and the delta variant”