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Choking Global Trade

CLAIRE BROWN

Low rainfall and shrinking rivers are causing shipping bottlenecks, and higher prices, around the world.

Scientists Who Study Sleep and Narcolepsy Win Prestigious Lasker Award

CAROLYN Y. JOHNSON

Two researchers who study the debilitating sleep disorder have won a prestigious Lasker Award. Their research in animals laid the groundwork for a new drug that addresses the condition’s root cause.

El Niño fuels wildfires in Indonesia, sickening some 100,000 people

The fires are burning peatlands, which can release more particulate matter into the air than other wildfires

U.S. to Lend $1.9 Billion to Restart a Shuttered Nuclear Plant in Iowa

BRAD PLUMER

No company in the United States has ever restarted a reactor that was seemingly closed for good, but there are now three major efforts underway to do so.

The Mathematician Crushed Between OpenAI and Anthropic Over a Math Problem

KENNETH CHANG

Tristan Buckmaster was on the path toward an important proof when one of the A.I. giants used its staggering resources to get there first.

A.I. Could Possibly End Humanity. How Are Humans Supposed to Process That?

WILLIAM J. BROAD AND CADE METZ

The technology is far from the only existential risk our species faces. But weighing such cosmic fears can become a mind-bending exercise.

The Iran War Is Pushing Global Coal Use to Record Highs

BRAD PLUMER

Five years after virtually every world leader agreed to “phase down” the burning of coal for climate reasons, the fuel is more widely used than ever.

How the New iPhone Duo’s Glass Screen Bends Without Breaking

WILLIAM J. BROAD

The screens of foldable phones are a triumph of materials science and microengineering.

Racing to Contain Invasive Green Crabs in Puget Sound

REBECCA DZOMBAK AND CHONA KASINGER

Tribes and scientists are mounting an urgent trapping effort to keep European green crabs from devastating a corner of Puget Sound.

Why the Swift telescope was so special

NASA's formidable gamma-ray burst hunter is doomed to soon reenter Earth's atmosphere, leaving a glaring gap in our view of the high-energy sky

25 years after 9/11, survivors are still getting sick—here are the numbers

A quarter of a century after the Twin Towers fell, those who lived through the attacks are still seeking care for myriad illnesses, including cancers, post-traumatic stress disorder, and more

Are AI chatbots making us less human?

What do we lose when machines become our closest confidants?

The Atlantic hurricane season just quietly broke a new weather record

The Atlantic Ocean has never seen a year without a hurricane since reliable records began

‘Odd couple’ black holes can find each other in space

Two studies find signs of strange black hole binary systems

Giant armored crustaceans survive thanks to a gene stolen from bacteria

Scientists have long wondered how these bizarre creatures endured for years without food—now they've found out why