The Freeloading Boyfriends That Just Won’t Let Go
Male Santa Marta harlequin toads piggyback on their mate for months before egg meets sperm.
Science
How in the World Did We Get Venus Flytraps?
Scientists are closing in on one of botany’s great riddles
The Pandemic After the Pandemic
Long COVID isn’t going away, and we still do not have a way to fully prevent it, cure it, or really to quantify it.
Vaccinating Kids Has Never Been Easy
Uptake of COVID vaccines for kids has been slow, but it has been slow for other vaccines too.
On Top of Everything Else, Nuclear War Would Be a Climate Problem
Even a “minor” skirmish would wreck the planet.
The Coronavirus’s Next Move
Here are four shapes that the next variant might take—which will also dictate the shape of our response.
America Is the World’s Largest Oil Producer. So Why Is Losing Russia’s Oil Such a Big Deal?
The U.S. might be “energy independent,” but it still can’t control production.
A Plot Twist in the Milky Way
Astronomers have cracked a mystery 1,000 light-years from Earth.
The False Promise of Plastic Recycling
A French company has a new solution to the plastic problem. Not everyone is buying it.
Now We’re Just Throwing Trash at the Moon
Discarded rocket hardware just left a crater the size of a basketball court on the lunar surface.