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Interview'It would be a disaster': Ammunition for war is putting the Caspian Sea on the brink of collapseLive Science spoke with professor of civil and environmental engineering Amir AghaKouchak about the reasons behind the Caspian Sea's stark decline over the past three decades.
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InterviewSuper El Niño may push an already stressed climate ecosystem across a critical threshold, climate change researcher saysLive Science spoke with climate change researcher Jong-Seong Kug about how a super El Niño could cause lasting damage to our world.
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Interview'There are challenges, but renewables are just growing so fast, and it is growing so fast because it is so cheap.'Author and journalist Fred Pearce tells Live Science editor Hannah Osborne about his book "Despite it All" — looking at the changes that have taken place over the last 40 years that provide some hope that we can solve the climate crisis.
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Interview'This problem of gun violence in America is not unsolvable'Health editor Nicoletta Lanese spoke with trauma surgeon Dr. Selwyn Rogers Jr. about his new book, "Healing the Gun Violence Epidemic."
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InterviewOnce a 'miracle in the desert,' California's Salton Sea now spreads toxic dust on vulnerable communitiesMedical anthropologist Ann Cheney speaks to Live Science writer Sascha Pare about the heavy toll toxic dust from California's largest inland lake takes on marginalized communities.
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Interview'We were genuinely surprised': 'Superworms' can clean extremely delicate skeletons lickety-split, and that's a game changer for museumsBiologists Niloofar Alaei Kakhki and Morteza Monfared tell Live Science how beetle larvae could be repurposed from pet food to a cleaner for museums and laboratories.
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Interview'It affects your daily life suddenly': Sea level researcher explains why once-in-a-century floods could become the new normalLive Science spoke with sea level expert Sönke Dangendorf about how human-caused sea-level rise is increasing extreme water levels, as once-in-a-century flooding events become decadal.
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Interview'The moon looked wrong': Artemis II mission controller Chris White tells the story behind NASA's historic photosArtemis II lead communications officer Chris White describes the tensest and most shocking moments of the historic moon mission, as seen from his desk at mission control in Houston.
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Interview'Some people called it horrifying': 'Dinner with King Tut' author on using Egyptian mummification techniques on a modern-day human body"A lot of the book was actually me floundering around, failing to complete the projects or figuring out what I was doing wrong," author Sam Kean says about his experimental archaeology adventures.
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Interview'800 seconds for a sick visit': Some factors driving antibiotic resistance have nothing to do with biology, says medical sociologist Julia SzymczakDoctors' decisions around antibiotics aren't as logical as you might assume; they can be skewed by emotional and social factors, a medical sociologist explains.
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Interview'It's more than a hope, it's a guarantee': The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's 10-year movie of the universe is about to 'blow our minds,' chief scientist saysThe Vera C. Rubin Observatory has begun its Legacy Survey of Space and Time, a 10-year mission to map the entire southern sky many times over. Chief Scientist Tony Tyson tells us why the survey could be remembered 100 years from now, if bright corporate satellites don't ruin the view.
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INTERVIEW'It sounds so impossible': Student studying fungus that makes users hallucinate tiny people may be on the verge of a scientific breakthroughLive Science spoke with Colin Domnauer, a PhD student in ethnobiology whose unraveling of a mushroom mystery could reveal a new hallucinogenic compound.
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Interview'Is it really necessary to generate another image?': UN scientist explains how everyday people can limit AI's environmental impactLive Science spoke with Kaveh Madani, the lead investigator of a United Nations report examining AI's environmental footprint, about this technology's staggering energy use and what users can do to limit their impact.
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Interview'They reliably chose the statistically more favorable option': A crow researcher explains how these winged geniuses process numbers, and what it could reveal about human math smartsLive Science spoke with animal researcher Andreas Nieder about how animals process mathematical concepts like statistical reasoning and the idea of zero.
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