It will be years until NASA is ready for a journey to the red planet, but if Earth continues to suffer from climate change, Mars could come to us. On Mars, we’ll all farm underground. Our crops will ...

Terese Marie Mailhot interviews Alicia Elliott and Arielle Twist about some recent triumphs in Indigenous literature—and about other triumphs still to come. Both authors chatted with Pacific Standard ...

The day after Earth Day at the New York Botanical Garden was one of those spring stunners when half the city had come out to get their nature fix after a long, gray winter. Couples lolled on the lawns ...

They won’t be lost to fire, like much of the Universal Music catalog, but who will save the mixtapes? In 2008, a 24-hour inferno ripped through a Universal Studios backlot, incinerating a massive ...

Research has found that migrants and refugees don’t spread diseases to host populations, though migrants themselves are often at higher risk of illness because of poor living conditions. One of the ...

In low, pharmaceutical-grade doses, meth may actually repair and protect the brain in certain circumstances. D-methamphetamine is what generally appears on the street—although it’s often cut with ...

Although research debunks white supremacists’ claims about lactose intolerance, race has long played a role in American milk-drinking. In December of 2016, three weeks after President Donald Trump’s ...

During the 2016 election, Donald Trump famously proclaimed “I love the poorly educated!” Well, if “poorly educated” is a euphemism for “cognitively challenged,” new research finds they loved him right ...

I grew up drinking and bathing in the toxic waters around a military base in North Carolina. Thirty years later, I went back to investigate. In the autumn of 1980, a contractor showed up to grade a ...

Tree cover loss in the tropics was outweighed by tree cover gain in subtropical, temperate, boreal, and polar regions. Despite ongoing deforestation, fires, drought-induced die-offs, and insect ...

New research shows that cities where newspapers closed up shop saw increases in government costs as a result of the lack of scrutiny over local deals. When local newspapers shut their doors, ...

An emphasis on the humanities in medical school trains future doctors to become proficient in the social and cultural context of health care. A three-year-old was newly diagnosed with a brain tumor ...