Skip to main content

Autism Has Always Existed. We Haven’t Always Called It Autism.

Roy Richard Grinker The New York Times
Science has not failed. We have developed reliable early detection methods, expanded special education and improved behavioral and medical therapies. To think otherwise reveals a deep and willful ignorance of the history of autism and complexity.

Sunday Science: Happy Birthday, LIGO. Now Drop Dead.

Dennis Overbye The New York Times
Ten years ago, astronomers made an epic discovery with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. Cosmology hasn’t been the same since, and it might not stay that way much longer.

The Other End of the Weight Spectrum: Very Thin People

Ute Eberle Knowable Magazine
Researchers are exploring why some individuals are naturally super-lean and may struggle to gain weight. The causes of such constitutional thinness offer clues to the physiology of weight control.

Colonizing Mars Is a Really, Really Terrible Idea

Stuart Jeffries The Guardian
Woah! say Kelly and Zach Weinersmith in this romp through the many rooms of a space folly. “Leaving 2C warmer Earth for Mars would be like leaving a messy room so you can live in a toxic waste dump.”

Abandoning mRNA Is a Dangerous Decision

Rick Bright The New York Times
If the United States abandons mRNA, it will not simply be forfeiting a public health advantage. It will be ceding a strategic asset. In national security terms, mRNA is the equivalent of a missile defense system for biology.
Subscribe to Science