When I was a kid, I wanted to be a detective. Thanks to a steady diet of the Hardy Boys and Encyclopedia Brown, though, I had a very simplistic view of things. I didn’t at first ...

OVERPOPULATION EXTRAPOLATION (“How to Save Planet Earth,” May 2021) Let me recommend adding a curve for the human population to your graph of the CO2-loading of the atmosphere. ...

SENSING TOUCH • TEEN SCIENTIST • INSIDE AN EARTHWORM HOW DID SOCIAL ANXIETY EVOLVE? • SAVING KELP FORESTS • TIKTOK TREND STAR BURST This Funfetti-like bloom called Cassiope ...

Several years ago, Sushma Subramanian was procrastinating on her work when she noticed her desk was a bit wobbly. It was a rather mundane moment, she recalls. But as she began to f ...

Shreya Ramachandran, 18, remembers witnessing California’s water crisis firsthand on a visit to Tulare County in 2014, when she was still a preteen. Tulare spans a large swath of ...

The jewel-like tones in this image reveal the rich interior life of an earthworm — and not just metaphorically speaking. Worms play host to a legion of symbiotic microbes and par ...

Amidst a year and a half of Zoom fatigue and interactions that feel like plastic replicas of the real thing, the COVID-19 pandemic has made it clear just how important sociality is ...

The brutal consequences of climate change in California — the record-breaking heatwaves, droughts, and wildfires — have been well documented. But the climate crisis has also ta ...

If you think you always look better in the mirror than you do in photos, one of the latest TikTok trends probably won’t make you feel any better. The trend uses the app’s inver ...

The symptoms that brought Louis to the Keck Hospital of University of Southern California seemed less than concerning at first glance. The 41-year-old said he’d been feeling weak ...