Articles by

Matt Reynolds

Mississippi Passes Bill Banning Lab-Grown Meat

The Mississippi House of Representatives just passed a bill banning cultivated meat. This makes Mississippi the third...

Scientists Just Created a ‘Woolly Mouse’ With Mammoth-Like Fur

De-extinction startup Colossal Biosciences has gene-edited mice to have mammoth-like features, creating what the company calls the...

DOGE Is Inside the National Institutes of Health’s Finance System

Four representatives of Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) task force have been installed at...

USDA Layoffs Derail Projects Benefiting American Farmers

The widespread layoff of Department of Agriculture scientists has thrown vital research into disarray, according to former...

‘Dengue Boy’ Is the Weird, Fleshy Novel You Need Right Now

Evolution, ethnography, epidemics—this is the soup from which Dengue Boy, a brilliantly strange new novel by the...

Early Detection Tools Help but They Can’t Stop Every Wildfire

A little after 6:25 am on November 8, 2018, a 911 dispatcher received the first report of...

RFK Jr.’s Organic Crusade Has Sparked a Weird Political Realignment

In October, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stood outside the United States Department of Agriculture headquarters and railed...

Trump’s Day One Executive Orders Will Worsen Climate Crisis

On his first day in office, President Trump has signed a slew of executive orders that will...