Month: March 2022

Covid-19 vaccines for young kids are a big step toward a new normal

More than 28 million children across the US are now eligible to receive Covid-19 vaccinations, a step that could relieve

The curious case of the ancient whale bones

Every year, thousands of whales strand — meaning that they wind up trapped on beaches or in shallow waters —

Streaming space tourism is the new reality TV

When SpaceX launches its first all-civilian crew into space later this fall and takes a multi-day trip circling the Earth,

The case against the concept of biodiversity

In 2017, an evolutionary biologist named R. Alexander Pyron ignited controversy with a Washington Post commentary titled “We don’t need

What it feels like to get Covid-19 after being vaccinated

Michael Miranda had been fully vaccinated for over four months when he tested positive for the coronavirus. “I stared at

Climate change worsens extreme weather. A revolution in attribution science proved it.

There’s a cliché that has popped up for years in discussions of climate and weather disasters: You can’t blame any

We have to accept some risk of Covid-19

There’s a growing consensus among health experts: Covid-19 may never go away. We’ll likely always have some coronavirus out there,

Astronomers were skeptical about dark matter — until Vera Rubin came along

Vera Rubin didn’t “discover” dark matter, but she put it on the map. Dark matter is a wild concept. It’s

Solar farms are often bad for biodiversity — but they don’t have to be

Every several years — sometimes just once a decade — when the rains come in just the right amounts and

What we actually know about the vaccines and the delta variant

The Covid-19 pandemic has changed, and with it, so has the effectiveness of the vaccines. The bottom line remains the