The Last Thing Albatrosses Needed Was a New Predator
Southern giant petrels are known for eating krill and fish. Why are they suddenly hunting birds their own size?
Science
America’s Vaccine Future Is Fragmenting
Vaccinated America is on track to real safety. Unvaccinated America still faces a real danger from Delta.
Why Are Gamers So Much Better Than Scientists at Catching Fraud?
A pair of recent cheating scandals—one in the “speedrunning” community of gamers, and one in medical research—call attention to an alarming contrast.
Guess Who’s Going to Space With Jeff Bezos?
Wally Funk has been ready to become an astronaut for six decades.
Doctors Are Puzzled by Heart Inflammation in the Young and Vaccinated
Weighing the balance of risks is a shade more challenging when it affects the youngest among us.
The Extremes a Walrus Will Go to for Love
In pursuit of a mate, Sivuqaq produced such stupendously loud sounds that researchers had to understand how they worked.
An Event So Wild It Could Make Anyone Feel Cosmically Small
Gravitational waves have brought us long-sought proof of a cataclysmic meeting between a black hole and a neutron star.
Nowhere Is Ready for This Heat
The Pacific Northwest is melting now, but all across America the infrastructure we have was built for the wrong century.
Why No One Is Sure If Delta Is Deadlier
The variants are spreading faster, but they don’t necessarily have incentive to kill more often.
A Grisly Skin Disease Is Creeping Into the American South
Flesh-eating parasites keep popping up in unexpected places.