No one can find the animal that gave people covid-19
A wild-animal trader who caught a strange new virus from a frozen pangolin. A lab…
This new image shows off magnetic fields swirling around a black hole
Astronomers have released a brand-new image of the supermassive black hole at the center of…
This is how (almost) anyone can train to be an astronaut
In his 1979 book of the same name, Tom Wolfe described astronauts as needing the…
Some artists found a lifeline selling NFTs. Others worry it’s a trap.
Anna Podedworna first heard about NFTs a month or so ago, when a fellow artist…
Inside Netflix’s Indian Gambit
One afternoon before the pandemic, I went to a decommissioned hospital in West London to…
Democratizing data for a fair digital economy
The digital revolution is here, but not everyone is benefiting equitably from it. And as…
The US is about to reach a surprise milestone: too many vaccines, not enough takers
The US has administered more than 118 million doses of covid-19 vaccines so far, and…
Did the coronavirus leak from a lab? These scientists say we shouldn’t rule it out.
Nikolai Petrovsky was scrolling through social media after a day on the ski slopes when…
A mouse embryo has been grown in an artificial womb—humans could be next
The photographs alone tell a fantastic story—a mouse embryo, complete with beating heart cells, a…
How lightning strikes could explain the origin of life—on Earth and elsewhere
The search for life on other planets is a lot like cooking. (Bear with me…