Scientists

Scientists, journalists, and artists often say that we live in the Anthropocene, a new age in which humans shape the Earth. Why do some leading geologists reject the term?

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Now that the war in Ukraine has suspended many collaborations with Russia, how should we think of the relations between scientists and their nations?

The U.S. government arrested Chinese professors, implying that they were foreign agents. The professors say that they’ve been caught up in a xenophobic panic.

Biologists are discovering the true nature of cells—and learning to build their own.

“I went back to warn them, but they already knew and didn’t seem to care.”

Access to information only goes so far to explain the curious link between secrets and those who tell them.

The future of the largest, still mostly untouched ecosystem in the world is at risk.

Amy Mainzer, one of NASA’s lead asteroid hunters, and the director Adam McKay, who collaborated on the film “Don’t Look Up,” chat about ways to neutralize an oncoming space rock (explosives!) and the likelihood of an apocalyptic collision (low!).

Could tinkering with photosynthesis prevent a global food crisis?

The behavior geneticist Kathryn Paige Harden is waging a two-front campaign: on her left are those who assume that genes are irrelevant, on her right those who insist that they’re everything.

Benjamín Labatut’s Sebaldian “When We Cease to Understand the World” grapples with science’s moral quandaries, but what is real and what is imagined?

Deer can regrow their antlers, and humans can replace their liver. What else might be possible?

A new initiative seeks to tap into mothers’ concern for the world their children are inheriting.

When the pandemic struck, scientists in Moscow set out to beat the West.

By looking at what people flush down their toilets, Biobot Analytics can track the spread of COVID-19 and other problems, such as opioid use.

As bacteria grow more resistant to antibiotics, bacteriophage therapy is making a comeback.

Science is objective. Scientists are not. Can an “iron rule” explain how they’ve changed the world anyway?

The F.B.I. tried to recruit an Iranian scientist as an informant. When he balked, the payback was brutal.

The country didn’t just manage to flatten the curve; it virtually eliminated it.