Nearly 170 years ago, a scientist named Eunice Foote discovered a fundamental truth about the gases that surround us. In her home laboratory in New York, she filled one glass cylinder with carbon dioxide and another with regular air, placed a thermometer in each and left them out in the sun. Less than 20 minutes… Continue reading Photos Capture the Extreme, Beautiful Work of Climate Science
Los Angeles Is Getting Hotter: How to Keep Renters Cool
This commentary was originally published by Los Angeles Times on September 15, 2025. Sweating inside your apartment as the temperature climbs is becoming ever more common in Los Angeles and, as extreme heat keeps intensifying, more dangerous. Last month, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors passed an ordinance that will require landlords to ensure… Continue reading Los Angeles Is Getting Hotter: How to Keep Renters Cool
Tiny Tubes Reveal Clues to the Evolution of Complex Life
Intermediate Interest The eukaryotic cell, in some ways, looks as though it came out of nowhere. Unlike bacteria and archaea, which are much older forms of life called prokaryotes, a eukaryotic cell has a double membrane of lipids around it. It also has mitochondria — remnants of formerly free-living bacteria — providing energy, a nucleus… Continue reading Tiny Tubes Reveal Clues to the Evolution of Complex Life
Revival: Americans Heading Back to the Hinterlands
This is the second of a two-part series on the Great Dispersion of Americans across the country. Read the first installment here. The famous New Yorker magazine cover showing much of civilization ending at the Hudson River, save for Chicago, D.C., and then the West Coast, had more than a grain of truth for much of… Continue reading Revival: Americans Heading Back to the Hinterlands
One Woman’s Pharmaceutical Journey to a Good Night’s Sleep
This Nature Outlook is editorially independent, produced with financial support from Avadel. I never had issues with sleep until the COVID-19 pandemic. A couple of months into lockdown in 2020, I found myself unable to fall or stay asleep. My worries played on an unstoppable loop, and the longer I lay in bed, the more… Continue reading One Woman’s Pharmaceutical Journey to a Good Night’s Sleep
How to Scale Up AI in Government
State and local governments are experimenting with artificial intelligence but lack systematic approaches to scale these efforts effectively and integrate AI into government operations. Instead, efforts have been piecemeal and slow, leaving many practitioners struggling to keep up with the ever-evolving uses of AI for transforming governance and policy implementation. While some state and local… Continue reading How to Scale Up AI in Government
A Single Atom Has Achieved a Breakthrough in Quantum Simulation
Single Atom Acts as a Quantum Computer and Simulates Molecules A quantum computer has used a single atom to model the complex dynamics of organic molecules interacting with light By Davide Castelvecchi & Nature magazine A view inside the trapped-ion quantum computer that carried out a first-of-its-kind simulation of molecular chemistry. The University of Sydney/Sciencebrush.design… Continue reading A Single Atom Has Achieved a Breakthrough in Quantum Simulation
The West’s Shifting Stance on Russia Repeats History
After the summit in Alaska between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, U.S. and Western policy toward Russia is again resembling its contours in times of past strain. Since World War II, the West has faced numerous challenges in deterring nuclear use, containing risks, and seeking limited cooperation. At times, depending on the nature… Continue reading The West’s Shifting Stance on Russia Repeats History
Interview: Demons & Magic
Podcast: Download MYS382: Are demons just fallen angels—or something more? Jimmy Akin joins Alexander Eth of Glitch Bottle to unpack Catholic teaching on magic, exorcism, grimoires, and the “clerical necromantic underworld.” Can holiness itself drive demons out? Get all new episodes automatically and for free: Follow by Email | Watch this episode and subscribe on… Continue reading Interview: Demons & Magic
Self-Assembly Gets Automated in Reverse of ‘Game of Life’
Alexander Mordvintsev showed me two clumps of pixels on his screen. They pulsed, grew and blossomed into monarch butterflies. As the two butterflies grew, they smashed into each other, and one got the worst of it; its wing withered away. But just as it seemed like a goner, the mutilated butterfly did a kind of… Continue reading Self-Assembly Gets Automated in Reverse of ‘Game of Life’