Public HealthMay 20, 2024
AI Is Getting Creepier, and Risky Cheese Is Getting Trendier
A rare geomagnetic storm lit up skies, eerie AI demonstrations and a cautionary word about raw milk.
AI Is Getting Creepier, and Risky Cheese Is Getting Trendier
A rare geomagnetic storm lit up skies, eerie AI demonstrations and a cautionary word about raw milk.
Cape Cod Has a Big Septic Tank Problem
Cape Cod’s water is turning “pea-soup green”—and after decades of scientific detective work, we know why.
A Citrus-Scented Cannabis Compound Reduces Anxiety for Weed Users
New research into weed reveals how a lemon-scented terpene can ease anxiety without reducing the high.
The Internet Is Full of Deepfakes, and the Sky Is Full of Trash
Deepfake images, a delayed spaceflight, the troubles with space junk and a blast from our past.
Introducing Science Quickly’s New Host, Rachel Feltman
Stay tuned for a new era of Science Quickly.
Can Food Work as Medicine?
Doctors are starting to prescribe vegetables or entire meals to ward off disease.
How Do We Know Anything For Certain?
Some practical advice for how to sit, happily, joyfully, with uncertainty—and in doing so, grow and learn from it.
Corals Are Once Again Bleaching En Masse, but Their Fate Isn’t Sealed
Amid Earth’s fourth global coral bleaching event, a leading expert says tackling climate change is the key to fighting back.
A Long-Awaited Climate Experiment Is Poised to Launch in the Amazon. What Will It Find?
Ahead of a project to spray carbon dioxide into jungle plots, researchers contemplate what its results might signal about the forest’s future.
A Singular Climate Experiment Takes Shape in the Amazon
After years of delay, researchers are ready to inject carbon dioxide into jungle plots.
This Simple Strategy Might Be the Key to Advancing Science Faster
The incentives in science don’t always encourage openness—but being wrong might just be the key to getting it right.
Will the Amazon Help Save the Planet?
Years in the making, a project in the Amazon rain forest is finally set to determine whether a rise in carbon dioxide could save one of the world’s largest carbon sinks.