Editor's Note

Rethinking how we live with wildfires

Editor in chief Nancy Shute discusses a new approach for managing wildfires that includes collaboration with local and Indigenous communities.

Finally, scientists are making progress on long COVID

Editor in chief Nancy Shute discusses researchers' efforts to uncover long COVID's mysteries.

How patient-led research is advancing science

Editor in chief Nancy Shute considers the role that people suffering from a variety of chronic conditions are starting to play in medical research.

Here comes the sun, the eclipsed version

Editor in Chief Nancy Shute muses on the total solar eclipse that will cross North America in April 2024.

Come along with us on a mathematical mystery tour

Editor in chief Nancy Shute discusses an unexpected breakthrough on a puzzle that has intrigued mathematicians for almost a century.

Using public health research to save lives

Editor in chief Nancy Shute discusses how overdose prevention centers, where people can use drugs in a supervised setting, are saving lives.

What a parrot knows, and what a chatbot doesn’t

Editor in chief Nancy Shute discusses AI chatbots' vulnerabilities and the intelligence of parrots.

Bringing scientists’ stories out of the shadows

Editor in chief Nancy Shute spotlights scientist Emma Rotor's contributions to weapons research in World War II.

Under the jungle, a more pluralistic Maya society

Editor in chief Nancy Shute discusses how new scientific discoveries are rewriting the history of Maya society

Scientific meetings — it’s nice to see you again

Executive editor Elizabeth Quill discusses the importance of covering scientific meetings.

The early women who shaped science journalism

Editor in chief Nancy Shute discusses the pioneering women who helped create and transform science journalism.

The challenges of seeing the profusion of tiny life

Editor in chief Nancy Shute marvels at the diversity of tiny life-forms known as protists.