Economic angst: How to avoid another global debt crisis
When countries have to devote such a large chunk of government revenue to servicing debt, they don’t have enough to pay for basic necessities like...
New point of view: A fresh map of Mars, from a spacecraft called Hope
The main scientific objective of Hope, which entered orbit around Mars a little more than two years ago
Quick Turnaround: The end of faking it in Silicon Valley
Recent charges, convictions and sentences all indicate the start-up world’s habit of playing fast and loose with the truth has consequences
Virginia Norwood, satellite imaging systems ‘mother’, dies at 96
The Landsat satellites, speeding 438 miles above the surface, orbit the earth every 99 minutes and have captured a complete image of the planet every...
Epidemic saga: Imagine we knew how the pandemic began
Three years since its start we are still more likely to see the pandemic in partisan rather than world-historical terms.
Al Jaffee, Mad Magazine’s inventive cartoonist, dies at 102
It was in 1964 that Jaffee created the Mad Fold-In, an illustration-with-text feature on the inside of the magazine’s back cover that seemed at first...
The trouble with toys: Superyachts of billionaires look a lot like...
Superpolluting yachts and jets don’t just worsen climate change; they lessen the chance that we will work together to fix it
New aid for some extinct Tasmanian tiger sightings
Now new research examining hundreds of reports from more than a century shows there is a good chance the thylacine may have persisted for a few...
