# Ross Andersen

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A Cosmic Voyage Through Deep Time (with Ross Andersen and Grant Slater)

Humanity has a deep time problem. Our internal clock simply cannot compute on a time scale that takes into account the rise and fall of civilizations, star systems, and superintelligences. Unable to fathom consequences beyond our chronology, we make decisions and take actions that could snuff out o…

Grounded

How Donald Trump tried to ground NASA’s science missions By Ross Andersen From the ⁠⁠⁠⁠February 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠⁠. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news. …

Peter Brannen — The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything: How Carbon Dioxide Made Our World - with Ross Andersen

Every year, we are dangerously warping the climate by putting gigantic amounts of carbon dioxide into the air. But CO2 isn't merely the by-product of burning fossil fuels--it is also fundamental to how our planet works. All life is ultimately made from CO2, and it has kept Earth bizarrely habitable…

Robert MacFarlane — Is a River Alive? - with Ross Andersen

Hailed in the New York Times as "a naturalist who can unfurl a sentence with the breathless ease of a master angler," Robert Macfarlane brings his glittering style to a profound work of travel writing, reportage, and natural history. Is a River Alive? is a joyful, mind-expanding exploration of an a…

Zoë Schlanger — The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth - with Ross Andersen

This event is in partnership with The Atlantic.  It takes tremendous biological creativity to be a plant. To survive and thrive while rooted in a single spot, plants have adapted ingenious methods of survival. In recent years, scientists have learned about their ability to communicate, recognize th…

Does going to the moon still matter?

If all goes to plan, Artemis II, Nasa’s mission to return humans to the moon, will launch this week. The mission will mark the farthest that humans have travelled from Earth, and the first return to the moon in more than 50 years. It will also pave the way for landing on the moon again as soon as 2…

‘What Is Life, and How Special Is It?’

The Atlantic staff writer Caity Weaver sat down with the planetary scientist Nina Lanza and the Atlantic staff writer Ross Andersen to discuss our evolving relationship with the cosmos and the search for life beyond our world.  This episode features a conversation recorded on January 28, 2026, in …

EPISODE 1594: Can Artificial Intelligence Be Moral?

EPISODE 1594: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the senior editor of the ATLANTIC magazine, Ross Andersen, about the ethics of AI technology and whether we should trust our new overlords of Silicon Valley with this radically disruptive technology Ross Andersen is a senior editor at The Atlantic…

A New Wave of Psychedelics

What happens when technology starts reshaping the human mind—and recording every moment of our lives? Ravi Gupta sits down with Atlantic staff writer Ross Andersen to explore two fascinating frontiers: the next generation of engineered psychedelics and the rise of AI-powered surveillance devices th…

Gamble on Anything. Except Murder. (with Bobby Allyn and Grant Slater)

With prediction markets, gambling has gone ambient. To place your bets, you don't need to visit a casino floor, a racetrack, or your corner bookie. Now any uncertain thing on Earth could be the next big short. Wildfires, missile strikes, the next word out of a president's mouth. Every disagreement …