Astronomers fret as private satellites photobomb Hubble Telescope
“We’re going to be living with this problem. And astronomy will be impacted,” said Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center...
Fashion forward: With Lagerfeld, clothes were only part of the story
Lagerfeld rather achieved mega-celebrity status by giving dramatic makeovers to two entities: the esteemed but for a time somewhat moribund house of...
Pandemic origins: Shaky discourse around lab-leak hypothesis
If you had been told, back in 2019, that this would be the state of knowledge in 2023, would it not seem weird that there has not been a broad public...
In memoriam Paul Berg, Nobel-winning pioneer of genetic engineering
The achievement was the first link in the chain of advances that has led to the genetic engineering of new therapeutic treatments for diseases and of...
Sustainable alternatives: A gold mine of clean energy under our feet
How much cheaper would it be if we could drill for hydrogen the way we drill for oil and natural gas, and put to good use society’s enormous...
Pest control: Should we even ask if there is an ethical way to kill...
Standard wooden snap traps often catch limbs or tails, forcing rats to gnaw them off in desperation. Live-catch traps are difficult to implement, and...
The Paleo Diet: Regret the fossil error. It wasn’t the first
A recent claim that a fossil discovery in India was just residue from a bee’s nest was a reminder of the need for science correcting itself
Prehistoric noise Jurassic jazz: What sounds did dinosaurs make?
To try to glean what sounds a dinosaur might have uttered, Dr. Yoshida’s team also looked to the evolutionary relatives of those Cretaceous creatures,...
