By Keith Devlin @KeithDevlin@fediscience.org, @profkeithdevlin.bsky.social This past month, Tylenol went from being a red-and-white bottle most of us keep in a cupboard for dealing with physical pain—everything from a morning-after headache to post surgery recovery—to being questioned in the US as a potentially dangerous drug (for some people, pregnant women in particular). True, the current US administration...

By Rhea Ghosal In March 2025, smoke from the Crabapple Fire north of Fredericksburg pushed across the Hill Country toward Austin. News alerts kept stuttering in, and by morning a family friend’s house was gone. Later we stood in a kitchen that still smelled of smoke, talking about wind, dryness, and how fast the fire...