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Byline: Fred Guterl In early 2020, as the pandemic was looming, Dr. Anthony Fauci corresponded with a group of scientists about the possibility that the COVID-19 virus escaped from a [...]

Byline: Fred Guterl The new comet that's appeared in the night sky between the Big and Little Dippers is no visual extravaganza. To the unaided eye, it's just a small, [...]

Byline: Fred Guterl For nearly three years now, much of the world has shared a single hope as a New Year grew near: a return to some semblance of pre-pandemic [...]

Byline: Fred Guterl When Blake Lemoine went public in June about his experience with an advanced artificial-intelligence program at Google called LaMDA-the two, he says, have become 'friends'-his story was [...]

Byline: Fred Guterl Everywhere you look, people are coming out from under their pandemic rocks. The masks are off, the bars are crowded, the kids are back in school. Even [...]

Byline: Fred Guterl The Omicron wave currently washing over the world may soon hit its peak. According to the scientists at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the [...]

Byline: Fred Guterl Like last year at this time, the very best we can hope for in 2022 is an end to the pandemic that has caused such devastation in [...]

Byline: Fred Guterl The COVID-19 pandemic may have made a future pandemic more likely. In a terrible irony, nations eager to get a handle on the virus and its variants [...]

Byline: Fred Guterl As India descended into a COVID-19 tragedy that dwarfed anything the country had experienced in the pandemic so far, with hospitals inundated, oxygen supplies short and vaccines [...]

Byline: Fred Guterl Back in 1994, when quantum computers existed only as so much chalk on a blackboard, mathematician Peter Shor invented what may soon prove to be their killer [...]

Byline: Fred Guterl For all the flak that President Trump has taken over the federal government's response, or lack thereof, to the coronavirus pandemic, the government's vaccine development project, Operation [...]

Byline: Fred Guterl The unprecedented swiftness with which medical science is developing a vaccine for COVID-19 is one of the most inspiring stories in this historic chapter. Vaccine candidates emerged [...]

Byline: Fred Guterl Dr. Anthony Fauci may be the only immunologist in the world who needs no introduction. He's dealt with numerous infectious disease outbreaks--and the political turmoil that often [...]

Byline: Fred Guterl As Memorial Day signals the start of summer, Americans are yearning for a return to normal. Restrictions are falling by the wayside throughout the country. Maine's governor [...]

Byline: Fred Guterl As states loosen up on social distancing rules, people aren't the only thing that will go back to work--so will the coronavirus. Dropping restrictions will allow the [...]

Byline: Fred Guterl With unemployment claims ballooning to 22 million people, the coronavirus lockdown took an uncomfortable turn for state governors on Wednesday. Workers and small business owners clogged the [...]

Byline: Fred Guterl The Thwaites Glacier is about the size of a U.S. swing state and holds enough ice to raise sea levels by about 10 feet. This alone is [...]

Byline: Fred Guterl Shortly after Iran lobbed two-dozen missiles into two U.S. military bases in Iraq last week, the country's foreign minister tweeted that Iran had 'concluded' its 'proportionate' response [...]

Byline: Fred Guterl Listening to Jimmy Wales speak is a bit like reading a Wikipedia page: Sound bites are few, but the tone is fair and measured. That's one reason [...]

Byline: Fred Guterl It would be hard to imagine a more revealing source of personal information than our own DNA. The 3 billion units of genetic information contained in each [...]

Byline: Fred GuterlBuilding cars that can drive themselves through busy downtown streets safely and efficiently is above all a staggering achievement in artificial intelligence, which is why tech companies were [...]

Byline: Fred Guterl By the time astronomer Scott Sheppard started looking at Jupiter's moons in a serious way in the 2000s, the planet had already been picked over like a [...]

Byline: Fred Guterl Climate scientists who play fast and loose with the facts are imperiling not just their profession but the planet. One of the most impressive visuals in Al [...]

Byline: Fred Guterl and Eve Conant In the early 1970s, Freeman Dyson wrote an essay comparing space travel to the colonization of the New World and the settlement of the [...]

Byline: Fred Guterl The last time world leaders talked about halting global warming, in Kyoto in 1997, they lacked a consensus. The U.S. Senate had spurned the talks by a [...]

Byline: Fred Guterl Earth is being engulfed in a dense cloud of hazardous debris that won't stop growing. Cosmos 2251 was an ordinary satellite designed to transmit signals across the [...]

Byline: Fred Guterl The genome's bounty is further off than expected, but it may yet yield deeper and wider insights. If a person's genes are his destiny, why do Sunney [...]

Byline: Fred Guterl; With Michael Levitin in Berlin and Sangwon Yoon in New York As forecasts for global temperatures grow increasingly dire, scientists are taking a serious look at an [...]

Byline: Fred Guterl A weapon built to defend ships from planes has morphed into Star Wars. Kim Jong Il is obviously uncomfortable. As tens of thousands of U.S. and South [...]

Byline: Fred Guterl and William Underhill As Europe makes repairs to its shiny new particle accelerator, U.S. rivals prepare to steal the prize. Investors aren't the only ones feeling a [...]

Byline: Fred Guterl Even a miracle of diplomacy wouldn't put global warming back in its box. There is something compelling, in a ghoulish sort of way, about the notion that [...]

Byline: Fred Guterl; With Craig Simons in Beijing The U.S. ignored Beijing's request that it pay 1 percent of GDP to help China go green. It shouldn't. Gao Guangsheng has [...]

Byline: Fred Guterl Bill Gates and other donors are bent on eradicating this crippling disease, but the war isn't going well. In the universe of global diseases, polio would seem [...]

Byline: Fred Guterl, William Underhill AND Sarah Garland The Large Hadron Collider is a symptom of America's decline in particle physics and, some fear, in science overall. The eyes of [...]

Byline: Fred Guterl and Barrett Sheridan A global report card on natons doing the most, and least, to clean up the environment. Greens could learn a lot from Franklin Roosevelt [...]

Byline: Fred Guterl In what may be remembered as the age of biology, Craig Venter is the field's pre-eminent innovator. He startled the world by making rapid strides towards sequencing [...]

Byline: Fred Guterl The best way to attack cancers and other diseases is to be watchful for the earliest signs. That's why medical researchers are excited about the potential for [...]

Byline: Fred Guterl Christmas day 2003 was a gloomy time at the National Space Center in Leicester, England. Scientists waited all day for a signal from the European Space Agency's [...]

Byline: Babak Dehghanpisheh, Owen Matthews and Anna Nemtsova, Susannah Meadows, Dan Ephron, Fred Guterl, Yasmine Mohseni, Claudia Kalb and Vanessa Juarez Middle East: A Fading Promise Is this the end [...]

Byline: Fred Guterl Of all the stories people tell, the least grounded in fact tend to be those about origins. Only a few decades ago, Christopher Columbus was the discoverer [...]

Byline: Fred Guterl It's never easy to plumb the reading habits of children, but teachers and parents perennially knock themselves out with worry over any sign of a decline. Among [...]

Byline: Fred Guterl News of the devastation caused by aids has been a steady drumbeat for decades now, and it keeps getting louder. The New York-based Council on Foreign Relations [...]

Byline: Fred Guterl (With Eric Pape in Paris and Eve Conant and Andrew Horesh in Washington, D.C.) In the 1950s, astronomer Fred Whipple theorized that comets were made of ice, [...]

Byline: Fred Guterl Fusion energy wasn't new back in 1972, when physicist Robert Goldston first arrived at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory as a graduate student. His colleagues were ecstatic [...]

Byline: Michael Hastings and Fred Guterl (With Sarah Schafer in Beijing, Joe Cochrane in Bangkok and Alexandra A. Seno in Hong Kong) The parade of flushed faces through Dr. Jacqueline [...]

Byline: FRED GUTERL AND ANDREW ROMANO (With KAY ITOI in Tokyo and SUDIP MAZUMDAR in New Delhi) It's not hard to imagine corporate executives treating Terry Penney with skepticism. An [...]