Ideas | Philosophy
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Chapter one
Climate
Culture | Psychology
The Psychology of Greta Thunberg’s Climate Activism
Identifying the ingredients of an effective argument.
Biology | Environment
We Need to Talk About Peat
Earth’s great storehouses of carbon are looking ominous.
Chapter two
Land
Ideas | Climate
As Winters Shrink, Our Discontent Grows
Our sense of order is disappearing with the snow packs.
Biology | Paleontology
The Day the Mesozoic Died
How the story of the dinosaurs’ demise was uncovered.
Matter | Astronomy
The Endless Storm Over Jupiter
Why the Great Red Spot refuses to die.
Chapter three
Matter
Numbers | Math
Are Neural Networks About to Reinvent Physics?
The revolution of machine learning has been greatly exaggerated.
Ideas | Linguistics
A Lexicon of Light
Since the universe formed, photons have affected everything.
Ideas | Artificial Intelligence
How to Predict Extreme Weather
Climate science is forging a more perfect union between humans and machines.
Chapter four
People
Numbers | Climate
Is Net Zero Emissions an Impossible Goal?
What it would take to suck more carbon dioxide out of the air than we put in.
Matter | Earth Science
The Secret History of the Supernova at the Bottom of the Sea
How a star explosion may have shaped life on Earth.
Ideas | Climate
If Only 19th-Century America Had Listened to a Woman Scientist
Where might the US be if it heeded her discovery of global warming’s source?
Related Facts So Romantic
“Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.” —Jules Verne
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Matter
Hologram Within a Hologram Hints at Fate of Black Holes
Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine’s Abstractions blog.Like cosmic hard drives, black holes pack troves of data into compact spaces. But ever since Stephen Hawking calculated…
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Biology
Where to See the Real Living Dead
Talk of “Mother Trees,” from a scientist studying plant life, can sound fanciful, like something out of a fairy tale. Suzanne Simard is here to tell you that it’s not. For the past…
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Culture
Doc Holliday Is Dead But Tuberculosis Is Still Killing Us
In 2002, David M. Morens, now Senior Scientific Advisor at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, wrote an essay called “At the Deathbed of Consumptive Art.” It featured…
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Matter
How to Give Mars an Atmosphere, Maybe
Earth is most fortunate to have vast webs of magnetic fields surrounding it. Without them, much of our atmosphere would have been gradually torn away by powerful solar winds long ago, making…
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