Elijah Wolfson

A Timeline of How the Wuhan Coronavirus Has Spread—And How the World Has Reacted

A new virus has emerged from central China, infecting thousands with severe...

A new virus has emerged from central China, infecting thousands with severe respiratory illness and killing dozens. Health officials, doctors and researchers are scrambling to contain the outbreak. As of publication, there are over 8,200...

Former president and chief executive officer of Nissan, Carlos Ghosn, introduces the Leaf electric vehicle on Aug. 2, 2009, in Yokohama, Japan.

Carlos Ghosn, Now a Fugitive, Was an Electric-Car Visionary

One of the more riveting news stories this past week was former Nissan chai...

One of the more riveting news stories this past week was former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn leaving Japan and flying to Lebanon. Ghosn has been charged with financial misconduct and was due to face a...

Pharmacies Don’t Know How to Dispose of Leftover Opioids and Antibiotics

Today (Dec. 30), a team of researchers from the University of California, S...

Today (Dec. 30), a team of researchers from the University of California, San Francisco and the Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C., published the results of an investigation into whether or not pharmacy workers could...

20 Ways the World Got Better in 2019, in Charts

The last 12 months have felt chaotic, destabilizing, and on occasion apocal...

The last 12 months have felt chaotic, destabilizing, and on occasion apocalyptic. Toxic nationalist movements have risen across the globe; politics in democratic nations have increasingly polarized; wealth gaps continue to expand; and the specter...

Vaping products, including flavored vape liquids and pods, are displayed at Gotham Vape in Queens, on September 17, 2019 in New York City.

Vaping-Related Illnesses and Death Toll Continue to Rise, But the Outbreak May Be Nearing an End

Fifty-two people have died

Brad Pitt, Quentin Tarantino, Margot Robbie and Leonardo DiCaprio (from left to right) at the German premiere of Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood at CineStar in Berlin, on Aug. 01, 2019.

We Counted Every Line in Every Quentin Tarantino Film to See How Often Women Talk

A New York Times reporter, in a recent interview with Quentin Tarantino, im...

A New York Times reporter, in a recent interview with Quentin Tarantino, implied that the director had made a deliberate choice not to give Oscar-nominated actress Margot Robbie more lines in his latest release, Once...

An image taken during the LightSail 2 sail deployment sequence. Baja California and Mexico are visible in the background.

Lightsail 2's Successful Deployment Makes it the First Steerable Spacecraft Powered by the Sun

This is a version of the TIME Space newsletter that went out July 26, 2019....

This is a version of the TIME Space newsletter that went out July 26, 2019.   Dear readers, Jeff Kluger is out this week. I’m Alejandro de la Garza, a researcher and reporter at TIME,...