From climate to Covid to A.I., we face a terrifying feeling of exponential growth spinning out of our control. Are we right?

The reckless acceleration era in A.I. may be over. But why did it start?

With rules governing the hard-hit Colorado River set to expire, the Trump administration presented options for dealing with the ongoing water shortages. Some experts said they would require greater sa...

For the First Time Since Early COVID & the Great Recession, the US is Losing Jobs in Manufacturing, Construction, & Other Blue Collar Industries

Podcast Episode · Death Panel · 12/22/2025 · 7m

Climate data and historical accounts suggest that crop failures in the 1340s prompted Italian officials to import grain from eastern Europe, and this may have carried in the plague bacterium

Crime almost certainly fell an enormous amount in 2025.

After Sri Lanka struggled through one of the worst storms in its history, tea plantation workers are taking temporary refuge in government schools and temples as entire villages were buried in mud in the central highlands.

James Hansen, Pushker Kharecha, Dylan Morgan and Jasen Vest

Dr. Vinay Prasad circulated a memo before FDA scientists finished their work. His conclusions overshot what the agency’s own analysts ultimately found.

Little-known secret: Almost every earthworm in most of the U.S. came from somewhere else. Native earthworms all but disappeared more than 10,000 years ago, when glaciers from a Pleistocene ice age …

A national survey found that Millennial Republicans are more likely to call themselves racist than Baby Boomer Republicans.

Jayati Ghosh argues that addressing the increasing concentration of wealth requires understanding exactly what's driving it.

Violence over water is on the rise worldwide. Researchers counted a record 420 incidents of conflict in 2024, many in Ukraine and the Middle East.

Jay Bhattacharya's new "plan" is really an admission that if there's a new pandemic, he’s not competent enough to do any of the incredible things he “would have” done regarding COVID. He's not

More than 1/4 of Israelis want to move elsewhere — a repudiation of war, a fragile economy, and a weakening of the founding Zionist promise.

Gernot Wagner thinks tackling the problem is justified on social and economic grounds, not existential ones.

By shooting for 3 degrees Celsius of warming, the world could slide toward a more cataclysmic 4 degrees.

Ten days ago I wrote that Tehran was approaching a point where warnings, pressure cuts and appeals to save water would no longer be enough.

The endowment dramatically increased its holdings of a spot bitcoin ETF since its previous such report.

James Hansen, Pushker Kharecha and Dylan Morgan

When 30 million Americans learnt to inject themselves with Ozempic, they lost weight while creating the infrastructure for an entirely unregulated peptide market. Health and Human Services Secretary R...

Melting ice from the Himalayas is creating thousands of unstable lakes, a growing menace to towns and cities below.

Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating

The Epstein-Barr virus can convert B cells it’s infected into diabolical overlords that reprogram myriad other immune cells to attack our tissues, Stanford Medicine scientists have found.