More sci-fi should be “a blueprint for what we might achieve, rather than a warning of what might happen to us,” MacFarlane says.
September 9, 2017
Climate change, combined with a century of overzealous wildfire suppression, has turned an occasional emergency into a chronic condition.
September 7, 2017
In the past, catastrophic storms struck almost without warning. Now we can track them in staggering detail.
September 6, 2017
The virus caused widespread illness and fear in 2016, but it has virtually disappeared from the continental United States. Why?
September 2, 2017
“Holy cow, can you believe it?” the county parks director said, as four thousand people held their faces up to the sun.
August 22, 2017
I stared through my glasses at the last sliver of the sun, a neon-yellow comma, a pause before the big show. Then totality began.
August 22, 2017
Six decades after the supposed close encounter, nearly two hundred thousand people have descended on Hopkinsville, Kentucky, to witness Monday’s event.
August 21, 2017
In 1977, NASA sent a collection of music, sounds, and images from Earth into outer space. What cultural artifacts would you choose in 2017?
August 20, 2017
Forty years ago, we sent a message to extraterrestrials—a collection of sights and sounds of life on Earth.
August 20, 2017
Think of Monday’s event as a celestially imposed national moment of silence, a two-minute-long reprieve for reflection and grace.
August 18, 2017