Environmental economist and science journalist. For a few years, I worked as a researcher on the economics of climate change adaptation. Now I write about that and much more. LinkedIn
55 published news
December 2024
- 13 December
- A Whale Sets a Migration Record by Crossing Three Oceans to Breed—And That’s Bad News
- 08 December
- 60 Years Ago, Scientists Lost Track of One of the World’s Rarest Egg-Laying Mammals. Recently, They Were Lucky Enough to Rediscover It
- 06 December
- One of the Greatest Mysteries of the Himalayas Lies in Its Geology: Researchers Have Discovered It’s Destroying the Earth’s Crust
- 05 December
- Google Believes Its New AI Model Can Forecast the Weather More Accurately Than Meteorologists. It Won’t Be That Easy
November 2024
- 29 November
- The Genetics of Dogs Living Around Chernobyl Are Evolving. It May Not Be Due to Radiation
- 27 November
- Hats Off: The James Webb Telescope Reveals a Stunning New View of the Sombrero Galaxy
- 25 November
- Scientists Already Knew Cephalopods Were Intelligent. Now, a Cuttlefish Has Successfully Passed a Test Designed for Children
- 23 November
- This New Meat Substitute Isn’t Made From Plants or Created in a Lab: It Comes From an Unknown Sea Creature
- 17 November
- An Old Hypothesis on the Origin of Life Gains New Momentum With the Solution to the ‘Chicken-and-Egg’ Problem
- 11 November
- Yellow Brick Roads Don’t Just Exist in Movies. There’s a Real Yellow Brick Road Under the Sea
- 08 November
- CagriSema Is Ozempic’s Newest Competitor. The Twist: It’s Made by the Same Company
- 05 November
- Researchers Find a New Clue to the Three-Body Problem: The Islands of Regularity
- 01 November
- Sweden Had Led the Way in Classroom Digitization, but Now Reverses Course
October 2024
- 27 October
- Collagen Isn’t Just a Common Ingredient in Anti-Aging Creams. It’s Become a Pillar in the Cosmetics Industry
- 25 October
- Dogs Are Still Evolving. It Makes Sense: Our Relationship With Them Is Also Changing
- 21 October
- Physicists Have Been Searching for a Fundamental ‘Fifth Force’ for Decades. The Bennu Asteroid May Have Brought Them Closer to Finding It
- 20 October
- A Man Tried to Create a Giant Hybrid Sheep. It Landed Him in Jail
- 18 October
- The Water Cycle as We Know It Is in Danger. One of the Reasons: We’ve Been Ignoring ‘Green Water’
- 06 October
- The James Webb Telescope Helped Scientists Discover Carbon Dioxide in the Most Unlikely Place: Pluto’s Moon
September 2024
- 23 September
- More People Are Taking Magnesium Supplements to Sleep Better, but Science Doesn’t Entirely Back It Up
- 21 September
- SandAI Is an AI Model Created Specifically to Study Grains of Sand. There’s a Good Reason Behind It
- China’s Zhurong Rover Found These Mysterious Polygonal Structures Under the Martian Soil. They May Be More Common Than We Thought
- 15 September
- As Soon as the James Webb Telescope Started Operating, It Seemed to 'Break' Cosmological Models. There’s Another Explanation
- 14 September
- In 2018, Workers Stumbled Upon an 8th-Century Tomb. It Had a Particularly Unique Feature
- 09 September
- Latinos in South Florida Have Been Blending English and Spanish for Years. Linguists Say They’ve Created a New Dialect
- 07 September
- Can We Lose Weight by Walking? According to These Researchers, the Answer Lies in Our Genetics
- 03 September
- Peanut-Shaped Asteroids Are Surprisingly Common in the Solar System. Astronomers Just Discovered One
- 02 September
- NASA Has Confirmed a 60-Year-Old Hypothesis: The Earth Has a Third Hidden Energy Field
July 2024
- 16 July
- A Species of Cactus Has Disappeared in the U.S. For the First Time, the Primary Suspect Is Sea Level Rise
- Productivity Gurus Insist That You Have to Wake Up at 5:00 a.m., But Science Isn’t So Sure
- 14 July
- The Race for the ‘New Ozempic’ Has Another Competitor: Pfizer and Pill to Lose Weight Fast
- 13 July
- 10 Years Ago, a Japanese Company Set Out to Build a Space Elevator. It Doesn’t Look Like They're Going to Finish It Anytime Soon
- 11 July
- Hurricane Beryl Is a Grim Warning of What's to Come: An Intense Hurricane Season
- 08 July
- The Color Blue Is Surprisingly Rare in Animals and Plants. There’s a Good Reason for It
- 01 July
- Scientists Are Investigating the Source of More Than 5,200 Craters Discovered off the Coast of California. It May Have to Do With Gravitational Forces
June 2024
- 29 June
- The Asteroid Bennu Has Just Revealed a Clue About the World It Came From. The Key Is in Its Phosphates
- 26 June
- We've Always Thought That the Authentic Paleolithic Diet Consisted in Mainly Eating Meat. We Were Wrong
- 24 June
- Scientists Have Discovered a New Link to Depression in an Unexpected Vital Sign: Body Temperature
- 16 June
- Researchers Have Found 150,000 Tons of Ice on Mars Hidden in Plain Sight: In Its Volcanoes
- Scientists in the 1970s Thought That Larger Animals Should Be More Susceptible to Cancer. They Also Found It Wasn’t the Case
- 06 June
- We’ve Just Managed to Photograph Io Like Never Before. The New Photos Let Us Keep Track of Its Volcanic Activity From Earth
- 05 June
- In 2020, CRISPR Won the Nobel Prize for Revolutionizing Medical Science. Now, It’s Coming to a Salad Near You
- 03 June
- Some Experts Expect This Week’s Auroras to Be as Spectacular as the Ones We Saw Last Month. These Are Their Reasons
- With New Treatment, Regrowing Teeth Is One Step Closer to Becoming Reality
May 2024
- 31 May
- The Blue Crab Is One of the Most Dangerous Invasive Species in the Mediterranean. In Italy, They Have a Plan: Eat Them
- Cardio or Strength Training? Experts Says There’s No Debate on Which Is the Ideal Exercise After 50
- 29 May
- The James Webb Telescope Just Opened a Window to a Key Moment in the History of the Universe: The Birth of the First Galaxies
- 28 May
- Tattoos Have Been Normal for Years. They're on the Verge of Their Next Evolution: Becoming Biosensors
- 25 May
- The First Problems With the Neuralink Brain Implant Reveal Its Weakness: Its Conductive 'Wires'
- 24 May
- The ‘Doomsday Glacier’ Is Hiding Something Unexpected That Jeopardizes Its Existence
- 22 May
- Stephen Hawking Fell Short in His Prediction: The Universe Is Doomed To Evaporate
- 21 May
- The Psychology Behind Doomscrolling: The Trap Our Brains Are Programmed to Fall Into Again and Again
- 20 May
- Einstein’s Relativity May Not Reach All Corners of the Universe. Some Say It’s a ‘Cosmic Glitch’
- 18 May
- It's Not Just Auroras: The Sun Has Produced Its Biggest Flares in 20 Years. Here They Are As Seen From Space
- 17 May
- We've Long Known That Humans Carry Neanderthal DNA. Now, We’re Starting to Understand Its Implications
- 06 May
- Mysterious Objects in New Mars Images Aren't Swarms of Spiders, Scientists Say