“You and your sister live in a—“ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/s...

NEW: In 2023, twin earthquakes devastated parts of southern Turkey and Syria. All eyes are now on Istanbul, which has its own worrying fault system—one that will, inevitably, produce a large and tremendously devastating earthquake. Me @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/s...

Sometimes I worry I'm trying too hard, and then other times I decide you know what, just let the Billy Ocean-inspired headline rip, even if 2 out of 3 colleagues didn't get the reference:

First of all, rude

The sculptor Jim Sanborn has sold the secret to his Kryptos sculpture for nearly a million bucks — here's the story. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/s...

NEW: Not long after Earth formed, it received a giant sucker punch when an object named Theia crashed into it, unleashing debris that made the Moon. But where did Theia come from—the outer solar system? Nope. The Moon-making impact was an inside job. Me @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/s...

This is incredible. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/s...

If you're looking to launch Dark Pixar, here's your plot: "Experts discovered an unusual form of regicide in which a parasitic ant queen tricks workers in a colony into turning on their own mother." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/s...

ME (sobbing, folorn, bereft of hope): I don't think I'll ever know what a vindicated iguana looks li- THE NEW YORK TIMES:

That iguana DOES look vindicated I have to say 😂

Take your victory lap, girlfriend.

when you’re mean to me but it turns out I’m right this is who you’re being mean to that turned out to be right

Hard to think of anything in media that regularly brings me as much pure joy anymore as the headline in The New York Times' Trilobites section.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/s... “The rise of artificial intelligence has produced serial writers to science and medical journals, most likely using chatbots to boost the number of citations they’ve published.”

Just occurred to me that “6,7” yields the answer to life, the universe and everything, Gen Alpha is profound

NEW: this genetically engineered fungus lures mosquitoes to their death—by smelling absolutely divine my latest in @nytimes.com, with sharp edits from @michaelroston.bsky.social 🧪

My latest for @nytimes.com! For 40 years, paleontologists have grappled over whether a small tyrannosaur — named Nanotyrannus — was its own animal, or simply a teenage T.rex. The debate has been ... contentious. Which is why it's so fun to finally be able to say this: Folks? Nanotyrannus is real.

This story rules www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/s...

This story is BONKERS, and I’m so happy to see @jswatz.bsky.social ‘s byline on it www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/s...

Great story that takes a lot of turns but the top part, about how the solution was found, reminds me of a 1990s @ajjacobs.bsky.social article where he brought a police detective to a murder mystery weekend at a hotel, and while the other guests were playing by the rules...

Holy guacamole, this could be the weirdest story I ever worked on. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/s...

The ‘golden’ rule of the deep-sea: if you want to survive near hydrothermal vents, be prepared to fight poison with poison! My latest for @nytimes.com about an incredible worm that uses biomineralization as a detox strategy! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/s...

those damned outdoor pigs can't keep getting away with this

YOU ARE BUGS www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/s...

I can finally reveal why this account has been on hiatus for the summer... I've been working on a piece for the New York Times on the 1980s cola space race! www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/s... Its been a great experience working with the Times editors on this. #nasa #space #coke #pepsi

I've had a lot of questions about fission surface power this week. The delightful Ken Chang @kchang.bsky.social summed it up well in this piece: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/s... . On moon reactors, I'm bullish. On setting unrealistic timelines in a race to moon reactors, not so much. [1/2]

Check out my piece in the @nytimes.com about the 1980s cola space race. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/s... Worked with some great editors and a spoke with interesting people while I was working on this. Really pleased to see this published. #space #nasa #spaceshuttle #challenger

Skunks aren't the only ones with a distinkt advantage over the competition. 🧪🐍 Also, I'm always here for a @michaelroston.bsky.social headline. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/s...

Fantastic article about Rubin (both the person and the shiny new observatory) in the @nytimes.com today. Unlike many (not all!) of the male scientists with household names, she was a profoundly good and caring human. ALL of the women in #astrophysics today are standing on her shoulders. 🔭🧪✨

This is a great article. Sounds like a fascinating book. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/s...

fascinating - so much Native American knowledge we refuse to believe or acknowledge - why wouldn't natives see things in the stars the way the Greeks did? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/s...

Nice feature this morning by Bill Broad on Dick Garwin, which draws on some of our resources www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/s...

Got an early start today to catch up on the business and finance news that broke overnight but instead I'm reading a journal article on Barbie's foot posture plos.altmetric.com/details/1770... h/t: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/s...

Love how 70-year-old Don Pettit, NASA’s oldest active astronaut, seems like a big kid up in space playing with his camera gear and science experiments, injecting food coloring or dissolving an antacid tablet inside water spheres in zero gravity. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/s...

Over nearly 18 years, Tim Friede, injected himself with escalating doses of venom from 16 deadly snake species. He also allowed the snakes to sink their sharp fangs into him about 200 times. His daredevilry may help solve a dire problem. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/h...

Niamos! is the song of the summer and also the song of financing a rebellion by giving away your daughter in an arranged marriage that gives you the ick while fleeing storm troopers in a stolen TIE fighter prototype

"I imagine people 1,000 years from now ... who want to know about this critical moment in history when, for the first time, we were stepping into space." - space historian @planet4589.bsky.social, in a great Q&A with @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/s...

During the middle ages, manuscripts were fashioned from animal skins. This is especially clear in a set of medieval manuscripts from France that are covered in hair. Recently, researchers confirmed that these 'shaggy' books were made of 🦭 Latest for @nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/s...

When your the size of a sharpened pencil tip, water can feel as viscous as jelly. To get out of this jam, unicellular stentors team up to vacuum in more prey. These 'Family Style' meals may have been a key early step towards multicellularity Latest for @nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/s...

the nice thing about blogs is you can just do things

It's not fair that the astronauts got to sleep longer than me

I got to write about the mysterious orange snowy owl spotted in Michigan's thumb for @nytimes.com! Was it a genetic mutation? Did it get drenched in de-icer at a local airport? I talked to some experts! (A big thanks to my editor @michaelroston.bsky.social) www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/s...

The groundhog really nailed the weather prediction, shout out to that guy

ohhhh my god is neo-tokyo about to explode? should we tell everyone? should we throw a party? should we invite tetsuo?

I would like it noted in the grand karmic ledger that I just opted against pointing out to someone who was attempting to correct another someone's "grammar" that they were actually correcting that person's diction.

Did no one raise their hand at the vesper martini brainstorming meeting and say “actually maybe the message of the show is that you DON’T want to escape to The White Lotus?”

"Her Discovery Wasn’t Alien Life, but Science Has Never Been the Same" "The internet erupted in controversy over Felisa Wolfe-Simon and colleagues’ claim of a microbe thriving on arsenic. " www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/s... a blast from the past, some reporting war stories in this 'un

Just encountered the modern Manhattan parent version of "For Sale: Baby Shoes, Never Worn" which was two near mint condition SHSAT test prep books sitting on the "up for grabs" table in the children's room of my local library.

Marco Inaros is up to his old tricks www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/s...

Flower mites, found throughout blooms in the tropics, can sense modulated electric fields emanating from hummingbirds, which they employ to hitchhike to other flowers. Very fun story to write! www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/s...