Culture

Twelve hours after tourists photographed the South Sawyer Glacier, a landslide triggered the second-tallest tsunami in recorded history. The signals were there. The monitoring system wasn't.

Scientists warn a coming super El Niño could trigger lasting "climate regime shifts" — not just extreme weather, but permanent changes to rainfall, drought, and ocean systems worldwide.

Thousands of American teens are reclaiming public spaces in what they call 'takeovers.' Curfews haven't stopped them. The real question is why they had nowhere else to go.

The 5th Circuit tried to ban mifepristone again. The Supreme Court blocked it again. Why does a conservative court keep protecting abortion pill access — and how long will it last?

The UK's generational tobacco ban—permanent for anyone born after 2009—isn't just a health policy. It reveals how decades of 'grudging toleration' quietly build the case for outright bans, with implications for social media and gambling apps.

Particles are the smallest things we've found, but that doesn't make them fundamental. A deep dive into why the question of what reality is made of remains stubbornly, fascinatingly open.

Science writer David Epstein found unexpected happiness after a head injury forced him to do one thing at a time. What his experience reveals about the attention economy and why focus has become so rare.

Trump's Iran war has hit the 60-day War Powers Resolution deadline. Congress was supposed to act. It didn't. What happens when the rules everyone agreed on simply stop working?

Trump has implied Cuba is next on his regime change list. But after Venezuela and Iran, the administration's Cuba strategy remains murky — and the island's resilience may outlast Washington's attention.

Trump withdrew Casey Means's surgeon general nomination, signaling the limits of the MAHA movement. What happens when wellness culture tries to become public health policy?

J. Craig Venter's death prompts a clear-eyed look at synthetic biology's 15 years of promise, progress, and stubborn limits—and the questions science still can't answer.

JD Vance called The Atlantic's reporting false, then immediately confirmed its substance. His Iran war tightrope reveals the impossible geometry of loyalty politics in the Trump era.