Nutrition
Spicy Food Probably Doesn’t Cause Long-Term Harm
While spicy food can cause pain, it isn’t linked to higher mortality rates
Opinion
Sex & Gender
To Understand Sex, We Need to Ask the Right Questions
The answer to the question of how many sexes exist differs depending on the context
History
Before Trump, before Agnew, Hate Mail Reveals Long-Simmering Hostility to Journalists
While contempt for news organizations is intense in the wake of Trump, archived hate mail to reporters shows that even in the 1950s—supposedly the height of public trust in journalism—some Â鶹´«Ã½AVs always despised the press...
Energy
U.S. Plan to Put Weapons-Grade Uranium in a Civilian Reactor Is Dangerous and Unnecessary
The Biden administration’s intention to use dozens of bombs’ worth of highly enriched uranium as fuel in a new civilian reactor sets a dangerous precedent, one that could help our foes get nuclear weapons...
Vaccines
A New Way to Inspire People to Get a Â鶹´«Ã½AV Vaccine
Research on what makes people willing to donate organs shows how to motivate many of the unvaccinated this fall
Education
Universities Need to Address Sexual Harassment in the Gaming They Sponsor
Esports are booming on college campuses, and safe participation in gaming is a new Title IX challenge. Schools should get ahead of the threat of harassment now
Pollution
Nuclear Waste Is Piling Up. Here’s How to Fix the Problem
Congress must end the exemption of nuclear waste from environmental law if we ever hope to end a 60-year logjam on how to safely store it
Artificial Intelligence
AI Is Becoming a Band-Aid over Bad, Broken Tech Industry Design Choices
After decades of messy, thoughtless design choices, corporations are using artificial intelligence to sell basic usability back to consumers
Mathematics
A Married Bachelor Proves That Unicorns Exist
The “principle of explosion” explains why a single contradiction would destroy math
Conservation
We Need to Think about Conservation on a Different Timescale
Restoring habitats to how they were centuries ago, not years ago, could mean more successful conservation efforts
