Hurricane Categories Don’t Capture All of a Storm’s True Dangers
The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season could be disastrous. Experts warn that a storm’s Saffir-Simpson category misses many storm dangers
Hurricane Categories Don’t Capture All of a Storm’s True Dangers
The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season could be disastrous. Experts warn that a storm’s Saffir-Simpson category misses many storm dangers
Superstorm-Spawning Sunspot Cluster Is Facing Earth Again. What’s Next?
Can You Eat Cicadas? Can Your Dog Do So?
Brain Scans of Jazz Musicians Reveal How to Reach a Creative ‘Flow State’
The Science of Heliophysics Demands Its Moment in the Sun
Volcanoes on Venus Might Be Erupting Right Now
Avocado Farms Aren’t Sustainable Now, but They Could Be
All the Darkness We Cannot See
Lifting the Veil on Near-Death Experiences
Superheavy Elements Are Breaking the Periodic Table
How the Guinness Brewery Invented the Most Important Statistical Method in Science
The most common test of statistical significance originated from the Guinness brewery. Here’s how it works
Antarctica’s ‘Doomsday Glacier’ Is Melting Even Faster Than Scientists Thought
Warming waters are reaching several miles into Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier—nicknamed the “doomsday glacier” because of its potential impact on sea-level rise
The Great Solar Storm of 2024 May Have Made the Strongest Auroras in Centuries
Northern and southern lights produced by a recent bout of severe space weather may rival the most intense auroras of the past 500 years
New Concentrating Solar Tower Is Worth Its Salt with 24/7 Power
A California firm is converting sunlight to heat and storing it in molten salt so it can supply electricity when the wind is calm or the sun isn’t shining
A Double Emergence of Periodical Cicadas Isn’t Cicada-geddon—It’s a Marvel
The U.S. is seeing two adjacent broods of periodical cicadas emerge this spring in a synchronized marvel of evolution
Surprising Supernova Scars Cover the Earth
A supernova showering Earth with radioactive debris is a surprisingly common cosmic occurrence