Perspectives
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Chemical Weapons Dumped in the Ocean Could Threaten Waters Worldwide
Andrew Curry
November 11, 2016
Just before 10:10 on a warm summer night in 1917, German soldiers loaded a new type of armament into their artillery and began bombarding enemy lines near Ypres in Belgium. The shells, each emblazoned with a bright yellow cross, made a strange sound as their contents partly vaporized and showered an oily liquid over the Allied trenches.
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Putting a Computer in Your brain is No Longer Science Fiction
Elizabeth Dwoskin
August 15, 2016
Like many in Silicon Valley, technology entrepreneur Bryan Johnson sees a future in which intelligent machines can do things like drive cars on their own and anticipate our needs before we ask.
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Billy Graham: ‘The Days of Noah’ Are Returning to Earth
Katherine Weber
June 1, 2016
The Rev. Billy Graham warns in a message in the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association’s Decision magazine that God’s judgment is due to return to Earth.
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In Search For Cures, Scientists Create Embryos That Are Both Animal And Human
Rob Stein
May 18, 2016
A handful of scientists around the United States are trying to do something that some people find disturbing: make embryos that are part human, part animal.
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Why We Live in an Age of Anxiety
Paula Cocozza
May 15, 2016
Anxiety plagues our times. In the UK, 19% of people suffer from depression and anxiety, according to the Office for National Statistics. Forty million Americans have an anxiety disorder; the average age of onset is 11. The disorders range from the generalised (GAD) to the unsettlingly specific: the pulling out of hair, compulsive skin-picking and, among the Inuit people of west Greenland, kayak angst. There is an anxiety for everyone.
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Vital to Food Output, Bees and Other Pollinators at Risk
Alister Doyle
February 26, 2016
Bees and other pollinators face increasing risks to their survival, threatening foods such as apples, blueberries and coffee worth hundreds of billions of dollars a year, the first global assessment of pollinators showed on Friday.