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.
161 published news
June 2025
- 14 June
- Williams Syndrome: What It Is and How It Can Help Understand Human Evolution
- 10 June
- More People Are Visiting Antarctica. A Recent Expedition Shows the Magnitude of the Problem
- 04 June
- Just Because You Could Live on Only Potatoes Doesn’t Mean You Have to, Scientists Say
- 02 June
- Scientists Have Genetically Engineered a Spider to Produce a Fluorescent Red Web. The Results Are Promising
- 01 June
- Eating Walnuts for Breakfast Is Good for Your Brain, Even Better Than You Could Ever Imagine
May 2025
- 30 May
- Celiac Disease and Gluten Intolerance Are Two Different Things. The Reason Why Isn’t Clear at First Sight
- 25 May
- The Ice Age Experienced a Solar Storm So Powerful That Its Effects Can Still Be Seen in Trees
- 24 May
- There’s No Such Thing as a Natural Ozempic Diet, but Following These Tips Can Help
- 23 May
- Researchers Have Found Bacteria on the Chinese Space Station. Surprisingly, There’s a New Species Among Them
- 19 May
- Eating Fermented Cabbage May Seem Unpleasant, but Experts Say It’s Excellent for Your Diet
- 18 May
- The Brain Works Harder Than You Think When You Sleep, at Least When It Comes to Memory
- 16 May
- Scientists Find a New Explanation for Dark Matter Using an Unexpected Source of Inspiration: Superconductivity
- 15 May
- If You Feel Like You’re Not the Same Person After a Long Shift, Science Agrees With You. The Reason Lies in the Brain
- Plants Exist Due to a Curious Union. Now, Scientists Want to Recreate It in a Lab
- 14 May
- Losing Weight Without Losing Muscle Is a Challenge for Drugs Like Ozempic. The Solution May Lie in This Protein
- 12 May
- Alzheimer’s Starts Long Before Symptoms Manifest. Scientists Just Discovered One of Its Early Mechanisms
- 11 May
- Our Species Didn’t Make the Oldest Bone Spear Tip in Europe. It Had Been There for 30,000 Years
- A Mathematician Solved One of the World’s Strangest Problems in 1949: Why Your Face Gets All Dirty When Eating Spaghetti
- 10 May
- Researchers Have Tried to Understand Neuroestrogens for Years. They’ve Just Found a Clue: These Hormones Regulate Our Appetite
- 08 May
- Eggs: Good or Bad for You? The Confusion Is Old, but the Evidence Is Clear
- Researchers Uncover Bronze Age Fortress Hidden Beneath Romanian Forest for Nearly Five Millennia
- 07 May
- NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory Shows the Moment a Neutron Star Caused a Fracture in a ‘Bone’ of Our Galaxy
- ‘Absolute Hot’: This Is the Extreme Temperature at Which the Laws of Physics Start to Break Down
- 05 May
- We’re Consuming More Mercury Linked to Fish. Scientists Are Fighting Back With Engineered Probiotics
- 04 May
- Researchers Reveal Evidence of an Unknown Paleolithic Culture. This Is What This Means for the Coexistence of Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens
- Resisting the Temptation to Buy Junk Food Is No Easy Task. This Online Tool Aims to Help You
- 03 May
- Loneliness Has Become a Public Health Issue. A New Study Reveals That Animals Can Help Alleviate It
- Scientists Have Long Searched for a Definitive Cure for Allergies. The Biggest Question Remains Unanswered: How Do They Work?
- 02 May
- Our Microbiome Is Key to Health, but Protein Sources May Modify It
April 2025
- 30 April
- We’ve Long Linked Calcium to Milk—but That’s Only Part of the Story
- 26 April
- Einstein Was Right: Astronomers Discover a ‘Dark Matter Bridge’ Using His Predictions
- 25 April
- Don’t Tell Me Your Age—Tell Me Your Grip Strength: What Simple Signs Reveal About Aging
- People Have Used Earth’s Magnetic Field as a Navigational Guide for Centuries. Researchers Want to Change That
- 23 April
- ‘Ozempic Pills’ Are Just Around the Corner—And They’re Not From Ozempic’s Maker
- 22 April
- Experts Have Warned of the Dangers of Arsenic in Rice for Years. We Might Be Underestimating the Risks When It Matters Most
- 19 April
- Olive Trees Are Known for Their Longevity. Some Could Be 4,000 Years Old
- Protein Deficiency Is a Health Risk. Here Are the Key Symptoms to Watch For
- 18 April
- Drinking Too Much Alcohol Affects Your Brain. The Effects Aren’t Far From Those of a Brain Injury
- 15 April
- After Analyzing the Abstracts of Scientific Papers, Researchers Came to One Conclusion: They’re Pretty Much Clickbait
- 13 April
- Scientists Developed 200 Sorghum Varieties, a Little-Known Grain That Withstands Drier Conditions
- 12 April
- Scientists Just Discovered That 20% of Our DNA Comes From an Unknown Hominid Population: Population B
- Researchers Thought They Had Solved the Mystery of the Giant Paleozoic ‘Trees.’ They Couldn’t Have Been More Wrong
- 08 April
- Scientists Have Successfully Brought Dire Wolves Back From Extinction 10,000 Years Later. Are They Really Back, Though?
- The Brain Controls Everything: Researchers Just Discovered Neurons That Tell You When to Eat and Drink
- 06 April
- 500 Million Years of Evolution Separate Us From Starfish. However, the Hormones That Regulate Our Appetite Haven’t Changed Much
- Genetics Might Have the Answer to Every Cat Owner’s Eternal Question: What’s My Pet Thinking?
- 04 April
- A Group of Researchers Has Tried Out 4:3 Intermittent Fasting. The Results Are Promising
March 2025
- 31 March
- After Studying How to Eat Less, Researchers Came to a Conclusion: Eat More Slowly
- 29 March
- The Other Traumatic Consequence of Childbirth and Postpartum: Evident Changes in the Mother’s Brain
- 28 March
- Researchers Say Consuming More Fruit and Coffee Can Lower the Risk of Tinnitus. They Don’t Know Why
- 27 March
- Ozempic Will Soon Be a Thing of the Past: Meet the Next Generation of Weight Loss Drugs
- 26 March
- Nearly 20 Years Ago, a Telescope Captured a ‘Cosmic Tornado.’ Now, the James Webb Telescope Reveals It Was Hiding a Galaxy
- 24 March
- What if the Constants of the Universe Aren’t Truly Constant? Researchers Say the Key Lies in the Nuclear Clock
- 21 March
- A New Study Challenges the Belief That Creatine Is One of the Most Effective Supplements for Building Muscle Mass
- 19 March
- The Images of the Sunset on the Moon Are More Than Just Curious. They’ll Also Help Solve an Old Mystery
- Data From the James Webb Space Telescope Revives a Bold Cosmic Theory: Our Universe Exists Inside a Black Hole
- 17 March
- Researchers Detected a Strange Chemical Signal at the Center of the Galaxy. It May Be a New Type of Dark Matter
- 16 March
- Researchers Have Been Studying the Oldest Human Remains Found in Western Europe for Years. They Still Don’t Know Which Species They Belong to
- Can You Spot an Intelligent Person Based on Their Personality? Scientists Say You Should Stop Trying
- 15 March
- A New Study Confirms the Myth: Marriage Leads to Weight Gain, but Only for Men
- 12 March
- There’s One Way to Enhance the Effectiveness of Weight Loss Treatments Like Ozempic. The Key: Tricking Your Metabolism
- 07 March
- Researchers Discover an Anomaly at the Bottom of the Pacific Ocean. The Issue: They Don’t Know What It Is
- The Creator of Ozempic Has a New Plan: Selling and Sending Wegovy Directly to Consumers
- 04 March
- The Key to Longevity Lies Not in Our Genes but in Environmental Factors. The Good News Is That You Have the Power to Change Some of Them
February 2025
- 27 February
- Putting Toilet Paper in the Fridge May Seem Weird. Believe It or Not, It Does Have Some Benefits
- Should We Really Be Worried About the Cracks Forming in the Earth’s Crust?
- 26 February
- Mathematicians Took 300 Years to Prove Fermat’s Last Theorem. Computers Have Yet to Succeed
- 25 February
- We’ve Long Believed That Recycling Plastics Was Worth It. In the End, It Might Be Just a Myth
- 22 February
- Researchers Have Discovered a Cosmic Network of ‘Highways’ Formed by Gas and Dark Matter Filaments
- 21 February
- The Atacama Desert Is One of the Driest Places on Earth. Despite This, Scientists Are Trying to Extract Water From Its Air
- 20 February
- Calisto Is the Second-Largest Moon on Jupiter. It’s Also the Place Where We Just Discovered an Ocean
- 18 February
- The Biggest Mystery Thriller Isn’t Currently in Theaters, but in Space: Hubble Is Investigating Whether a Star Has ‘Faked’ Its Own Death
- 17 February
- Bird Flu Has Reached One of the Planet’s Most Remote Places: Antarctica. It’s Putting Penguin Colonies at Risk
- 14 February
- New Evidence Suggests ‘Dark Forces’ Can Deform Atomic Nuclei
- 13 February
- Scientists Develop a New Type of Plastic That’s as Durable as Traditional Plastics. The Difference: It’s Recyclable
- 12 February
- There’s a New ‘Theory of Everything’ for Understanding Alzheimer’s Disease. The Key Lies in Tiny Granules
- 10 February
- Thermal Clothing Faces New Competition: A Fabric That Warms the Body Instead of Just Protecting You From the Cold
- 06 February
- You’d Need to Detonate the Earth’s Nuclear Arsenal 130 Times to Release the Same Amount of Energy That Created the Moon’s Great Canyons
- 05 February
- The Health Benefits of Omega-3 Are Well-Known. Scientists Now Claim That It Also Has Rejuvenating Effects
- 03 February
- An Amateur Fossil Hunter Stumbled Upon a Wonderfully Weird Discovery: Fossilized Vomit From the Age of Dinosaurs
January 2025
- 31 January
- U.S. Approves a New Non-Opioid Painkiller for the First Time in Decades
- 30 January
- Physics Is Broken, and the Evidence Is Mounting. The New Hubble Constant Estimate Deepens the Problem
- 29 January
- Ocean Surface Temperature Is Rising Faster Than Ever: It’s More Than Four Times Warmer Than It Was in the 1980s
- 28 January
- The Earth’s Crust Is Disappearing Beneath California. The Evidence Is in the Earthquakes
- 26 January
- Engineers Wanted to Simulate 500 Million Years of Evolution Using AI. They Found a New Fluorescent Protein Along the Way
- Six Months Ago, Researchers Discovered Dark Oxygen in One of the Most Remote Places on Earth. Now They Want to Know More
- 24 January
- Scientists Already Knew Octopuses Were Highly Intelligent. Now, a Research Team Has Discovered They Have a ‘Brain’ in Each Arm
- 21 January
- Researchers May Have Found a New Natural Alternative to Ozempic. It’s a Microbe That Lives in Your Gut
- 19 January
- While Humanity Dreams of Colonizing Space, Researchers Propose a New Idea: Living on the Seafloor
- 18 January
- Researchers Develop a New Way to Diagnose Alzheimer’s Disease: A Simple Head Turn
- 17 January
- According to a Study, Your Fitness Matters More Than Your Weight—At Least If You Want to Live Longer
- 16 January
- A Study Confirms What Everyone Suspected: Plant-Based Milks Contain Fewer Nutrients Than Cow’s Milk
- 14 January
- We Know Yellowstone Hides a Colossal Volcano—Now Scientists Know Where It Will Erupt
- Scientists Are on the Verge of Creating ‘Artificial Naps.’ However, They Require You to Implant an Electrode
- 12 January
- A Cave in France Hid a Strange Rock Formation. Researchers Believe It May Be the Oldest Known 3D Map
- 11 January
- The Key to Happiness in 15 Affirmations: If You Identify With Them, You May Be Happier Than You Think
- 10 January
- Getting a Good Night’s Sleep Reduces the Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease. However, Not All Sleeping Pills Are Effective
- 02 January
- UFOs Are a Distraction: This Is Why Astrobiology Is the Best Way to Find Extraterrestrial Life
December 2024
- 26 December
- Humans Are Living Longer and Longer. Now, the Ultimate Goal Is the So-Called ‘Longevity Escape Velocity’
- 21 December
- These Are the Real Reasons Why Archaeologists Are Reluctant to Open the Tomb of China’s First Emperor
- 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
August 2024
- 25 August
- We've Long Wondered Why the Chernobyl Wild Boars Were So Radioactive. It Turns Out It Has Nothing to Do With the Nuclear Disaster
- 04 August
- Scientists Have Discovered Supplements That Can Enhance Memory in the Elderly: Prebiotics
July 2024
- 31 July
- Meteorologists Warn That Debby, the Next Tropical Storm in the Atlantic, Could Be on the Horizon
- 24 July
- Scientists Have Been Studying Magic Mushrooms for Years Without Fully Understanding How They Worked. Until Now
- 22 July
- We Spend Too Much Time Sitting and Are Just Now Beginning to Understand How Detrimental It Is for Our Health
- 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