Science

The Danger of ‘Invisible’ Biolabs

By Dan Greene , Jassi Pannu and Allison Berke

Our World Is Filled With Fungal Spores. Some Should Frighten Us

By Emily Monosson

Here's How Bad a Nuclear War Would Actually Be

By Max Tegmark

There Are Amazing Fathers in the Animal Kingdom

By Frans de Waal
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I Spent My Life Saving the Whales. Now They Might Save Us

Over 50 years ago Roger Payne discovered that whales sing. Now he has an urgent plea for the world as he confronts his own mortality.

By Roger Payne

The Science We Need to Save Migratory Birds

To save birds at risk, we need more data and we need to make better use of that data.

By Rebecca Heisman

What Ants Can Teach Us About Working Together

"Ants are doing something right, and whatever it is, they are doing it together," write Heather Campbell and Benjamin Blanchard.

By Heather Campbell and Benjamin Blanchard

Lead in My Pipes Taught Me How Little America Does to Protect Children

America needs to do much more to focus on the wellbeing and health of children

By Adam Benforado

How Our Cells Strategize To Keep Us Alive

"Your body has an ingenious three-part strategy to keep you out of the junkyard," writes Dan Levitt.

By Dan Levitt

"Why Aren't We All Bacteria?" Siddhartha Mukherjee Explores the Power of Cells

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and doctor Siddhartha Mukherjee on the power of cells and how they shape us

By Jeffrey Kluger

The Problem With the Nobel Prizes

The Nobel Prizes often give us an inaccurate view of scientific progress. There is a better way to drive human knowledge, writes Martin Rees

By Martin Rees

The Strange History of the Invention of the Thermometer

Having your temperature taken is a regular feature of life amid COVID-19. Here’s the origin story of the tool that’s had us all on edge

By Phil Jaekl

How Movies Like 'Black Panther' Could Help Us Save the Planet

I don’t know when I first learned that the story of humanity was one of profound wrongness. But the idea that the world was broken because of our presence was always there, a constant cadence...

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

We Don't Need to Destroy the Economy to Save the Earth

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz says we must not let the fight against climate change become a partisan issue

By Sebastian Kurz

We Can't Solve the Climate Crisis Unless Black Lives Matter

The Black Lives Matter movement is not a distraction from saving the planet. We can’t solve the climate crisis without people of color, but we could probably solve it without racists.Whether it’s Hurricane Katrina or...

By Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

Don't Try to Change Minds of Climate Skeptics. Vote Them Out

Halfway into the year, our nation has reached a precipice: a criminal-justice system infected by racism that continues to take Black lives, avoidable deaths that keep climbing as COVID-19 sprawls, the scourge of voter suppression,...

By Stacey Abrams

How Joe Biden Could Undo Trump's Damage to Environment

Donald Trump has smashed a lot of environmental china in four years. To name a few instances: he pulled out of the 2015 Paris Agreement (a move that becomes official on July 6, 2021); loosened...

By Jeffrey Kluger

We're Handing Our Kids a Damaged Planet. There's No Excuse for Doing Nothing

We have often been placated with the notion that real change takes time. But this is only true where apathy is its main resistance. Change can come suddenly too.Western society saw change occur at breakneck...

By Oliver Jeffers

The Climate-Change Community Desperately Needs to Address Historic Inequities

As a Black scholar, I am usually one of the few dark-skinned people in scientific, educational, communication and policy spaces searching for natural solutions to climate change. Demographics of a group are a window into...

By Asmeret Asefaw Berhe

The Story Behind TIME's 'One Last Chance' Cover

Artist and scientist Jill Pelto created a vibrant landscape of key global climate change indicators

By D.W. Pine
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