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February 2, 20262 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm6 weird groundhog facts for Groundhog DayGroundhogs don’t really forecast the weather, but there are plenty of…

I recently spent a day at a secondary school in Birmingham. I agreed to do it because I like being in Birmingham and I like going…

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTubeOn this week’s episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with his thoughts on the…

The Atlantic’s Science, Technology, and Health desk has had a busy 2025: Our writers have spent the year probing the limits of human consciousness and gene-editing…

What’s the origin of Black Friday? What’s the most returned gift? Where did the mall Santa even come from? Molly Bedford of The New York Times…

Lawyers for Lisa Cook, the Federal Reserve governor, called Trump administration allegations of mortgage fraud against her “baseless” on Monday and accused the administration of “cherry-picking”…

Ernest Hemingway famously said that every good writer needs a built-in BS detector. But in 2025 we all need one. High levels of scientific misinformation are…

Robert F Kennedy Jr’s health department is conducting a new review of mifepristone, the drug used in the majority of American abortions, claiming that a new…

A little over a decade ago I published a book, This Changes Everything, which explored the reality of the climate crisis as a confrontation between capitalism…