The air is full of DNA — here’s what scientists are using it for

Who gets Guggenheim fellowships? A century’s worth of data shows the rise of creative artists, and the decline of humanists and natural scientists

Scientists Grow Electronics Inside the Brains of Living Mice

Venomous Snakes Represent a Serious Public Health Problem, Scientists Are Biting Back

A very good reason not to support the Guardian

Vividness and the Limits of Reason

What’s Next in Iran?

Harmeet Dhillon Is Not Wasting Any Time

Enchantment and the Courage of Joy: René Magritte on the Antidote to the Banality of Pessimism

America’s Insane Tax-Filing Process

How Trump’s Crypto Push Is Undermining American Power

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

Brickbat: Not Getting the Full Picture

Using synthetic biology and AI to address global antimicrobial resistance threat

India has big plans to remove silt from rivers—and scientists are alarmed

An Emerson for our times? Terry Tempest Williams’s “epic documentation of the Glorians” is full of celestial beings and desert miracles

These scientists saw a future in public service—until Trump’s ‘massacre’ hit

Here’s What the Whiskers on an Elephant’s Trunk Do

Abigail Adams Asked Her Husband to ‘Remember the Ladies’ as He Drafted America’s Laws. Here’s What She Really Meant

Here’s Why Mosquitoes Won’t Leave You Alone

A Brazilian scientist’s experimental paralysis therapy is fueling hope—and hype

How asbestos ended up everywhere and why we’re still using it today