Welcome to Pleistocene Park
In Arctic Siberia, Russian scientists are trying to stave off catastrophic climate change—by resurrecting an Ice Age biome complete with lab-grown woolly mammoths.
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Kim Kyung Hoon / Reuters No, We Can’t Say Whether Cancer Is Mostly Bad Luck
How some media outlets magnified the problems with a controversial new paper
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Carlos Barria / Reuters The Giant Trump Climate Order Is Here
What it does, what comes next
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Virginia Gewin Climate Change Is a Boon to Tourism in Iceland
As “agritourists” flock to the country for its gorgeous horses and delicious ice cream, farmers are looking for ways to make the best of the warming weather.
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NASA / JPL-Caltech The Quest to Kill the Superbug That Can Survive in Outer Space
After the tiny survivors returned from orbit, they showed greater resistance to antibiotics.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters What’s Next for the Keystone XL Pipeline
Activists plan an all-out resistance on multiple fronts.
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Mel Evans / AP Collecting DNA From Sex Workers to One Day Identify Their Bodies
Bioethicists studying a small program in Dallas were surprised by what they found.
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Ashley Mackenzie / Quanta The Mysterious Origin of Our Galaxy’s Gold
After long believing that exploding stars forged the coveted metal, researchers are now divided over which extraordinary cosmic event is truly responsible.
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ESO / M. Kornmesser Black Holes Caught in the Act of Cosmic Creation
Astronomers have glimpsed the telltale signs of newly formed stars inside the powerful winds of a supermassive black hole.
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A Better Way to Argue About Politics
There’s a simple psychological trick that might change people’s minds.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The History Behind the Long-Dead Space Council Trump Wants to Revive
The new administration plans to bring back a committee that has tried over the years to guide policy—with mixed results.
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Dado Ruvic / Reuters Artificial Intelligence: The Park Rangers of the Anthropocene
We worry about machines going rogue. What if they went green instead?
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James Gathany Mosquitoes, Get Ready for Your Close-Up
An interview with the CDC’s scientific photographer
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Alessandro Bianchi / Reuters A 130-Year-Old Fact About Dinosaurs Might Be Wrong
New research on the creatures’ family tree could “shake dinosaur paleontology to its core.”
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Matthew Travis / Reuters What It's Like to Watch Your Life's Work Blow Up on a Rocket
Sometimes technology works, and sometimes it really, really doesn't.
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John Locher / AP The White House Revives a Controversial Plan for Nuclear Waste
Yucca Mountain is back, and Nevadans are not happy.
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China Daily / Reuters How Climate Change Covered China in Smog
Air quality in Beijing has a lot to do with snowstorms in Siberia.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The EPA Needs Lots of Money to Gut Itself
Trump’s budget proposal would slash funding to the agency, which may run counter to his more ambitious goals.
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Raoul Schwing The Parrot With a Call as Infectious as Laughter
Kea parrots can make a warbling noise that whips other keas in earshot into a playful frenzy.
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Reuters The Tiny Trump Budget Cut That Could Blind America to the Next Zika
The Obamacare repeal would halve a little-known fund that’s vital for monitoring unexpected infectious threats.
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Reuters / NASA Sea Ice Retreat Could Lead to Rapid Overfishing in the Arctic
A consortium of countries are meeting in Iceland, where they hope to strike a deal that protects the newly accessible ecosystem.
