Iraq, a worse disaster for US than Vietnam?
Today there’s a stronger case for seeing Iraq as a more epochal disaster. In American domestic life, the Vietnam effect was more of a fever, whereas...
The next pandemic: We’re making the same mistakes again
22 March 2023The world needs a well-funded system that can spring into action at a moment’s notice when danger emerges — a fire department for pandemics.
The Life aquatic: Scientists breed sea dragons, but not by the...
21 March 2023Since 2008, the aquarists have tried to replicate the sea dragons’ natural habitat.
Righting the wrongs: Humanity is facing a great injustice
21 March 2023For several years, the issue of climate financing took a back seat to the World Bank’s twin goals of reducing extreme poverty and promoting shared...
It’s not a stretch: This dinosaur had a 50-foot neck
18 March 2023Researchers named the dinosaur Mamenchisaurus sinocanadorum and connected it to several other long-necked sauropods from East Asia. But...
How big of a betrayal is the Willow oil project?
18 March 2023To reach ambitious climate goals equitably, fossil fuel production in the world’s rich countries had to be phased out entirely by 2034. The Willow...
New moon suit for NASA’s Artemis astronauts unveiled
17 March 2023The approach follows the template NASA used in hiring Elon Musk’s company SpaceX to get astronauts to and from the International Space Station, and to...
Venture capitalists scripted SVB’s fall
17 March 2023SVB, in turn, assessed its clients’ creditworthiness in part by who their funders were. As my colleagues and I saw, an investment from a top tier V.C....