Jeffrey Kluger

6 days ago | time.com | Jeffrey Kluger

Bill Nye did not have much to do with politics during the 1990s, when he was making his celebrated Bill Nye the Science Guy TV series on PBS. But Nye has grown increasingly vocal in his objections to changes, budget cuts, and firings at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Institutes of Health, NASA, and elsewhere under the Trump Administration. Now he’s using his millennial celebrity to speak out.

6 days ago | time.com | Jeffrey Kluger

Beth Shapiro, chief science officer of Dallas-based Colossal Biosciences, might be most famous for the company's current controversial mission to de-extinct the woolly mammoth in 2028. Colossal made news in April with the announcement that it had used genetic engineering to bring back the ancient dire wolf, and it intends to do the same for other species, including the dodo and the Tasmanian tiger.

6 days ago | time.com | Jeffrey Kluger

The first recorded American sighting of the cicada brood now known as Brood XIV was made by William Bradford, the governor of the Plymouth Colony, in 1634—and he was impressed by what he beheld. “There was such a quantity of a great sort of flies like for bigness to wasps or bumblebees,” he wrote in his journal, “and soon made such a constant yelling noise…as ready to deaf the hearers.”Bradford and the rest of the colonists were not deafened for long.

6 days ago | yahoo.com | Jeffrey Kluger

Tuberculosis is an especially cruel disease—literally choking the life out of the people it strikes. That fact is particularly so for people who suffer from what’s known as rifampin-resistant TB, a form of the disease that does not respond to the leading medicinal treatment. Enter Dr. Lorenzo Guglielmetti.

6 days ago | yahoo.com | Jeffrey Kluger

Credit - Jamie McCarthy—Getty ImagesBill Nye did not have much to do with politics during the 1990s, when he was making his celebrated Bill Nye the Science Guy TV series on PBS. But Nye has grown increasingly vocal in his objections to changes, budget cuts, and firings at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Institutes of Health, NASA, and elsewhere under the Trump Administration. Now he’s using his millennial celebrity to speak out.