Stories by Madhusree Mukerjee

A container port the Indian government plans for this remote island threatens unique Indigenous cultures and biodiversity

Renowned physician Gabor Maté ruminates on trauma and Jewishness at a time of conflict

Pioneering scholar Riane Eisler describes her lifelong quest to understand why warlike societies are the norm

We asked the text-generating AI ChatGPT to talk about its own flaws

A tiny bug manipulates the behavior of its hosts to ensure its unlikely life cycle

Is a runaway immune reaction making a dengue vaccine dangerous?

But the self-styled missionary failed to comprehend that isolation ensures the Sentinel Islander’s survival

An editorially independent special report on research into fundamental scientific mysteries, produced with support from The Kavli Prize

Models similar to those used to track disease show what happens when too much information hits social media networks

Japan’s citizens, and scientists worldwide, do not have answers to basic health and environment questions

The cleanup effort could take decades; meanwhile the amount of radioactive material the plant leaks grows

Two of the most populous nations—China and India—are building hundreds of dams in a violently active geologic zone

Although there is an urban legend that the world will end this year based on a misinterpretation of the Mayan calendar, some researchers think a 40-year-old computer program that predicts a collapse of socioeconomic order and massive drop in human population in this century may be on target

A physicist ended up wielding a great deal of power during Churchill's political career, affecting policy on matters well outside the purview of science

Accusations fly over criminal dumping and scuttling of cargo ships carrying industrial and radioactive waste

Saving Earth might mean trampling indigenous societies

A popular carbon-offset scheme may do little to cut emissions

Strings and gluons--The seer, this year's physics Nobel laureate, saw them all

With missile defense, India turns the thumbscrews on unsettled Pakistan

Among the poor and most vulnerable, Smarajit Jana has found a way to slash the incidence of HIV--by organizing sex workers as any other labor collective

Tsunami-spawning quake leaves geophysical changes

A veterinarian analyzes the turf battles that have transformed the animal laboratory

Low-functioning autistics are not supposed to joke, write or creatively express a rich inner life. But then there's Tito Mukhopadhyay

German "Stonehenge" marks oldest observatory