Final results from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft suggest a brine reservoir exists within the dwarf planet, but some experts remain unconvinced | Continue reading
Final results from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft suggest a brine reservoir exists within the dwarf planet, but some experts remain unconvinced | Continue reading
The first U.S. Coordinator for the Arctic is mostly veteran of Afghan war diplomacy—but the issues in the far North aren’t primarily military | Continue reading
They bear a greater proportion of childcare and household responsibilities, making it much harder for them to publish their work and get ahead | Continue reading
Climate change is expected to bring more frequent droughts and heat waves to Africa’s Kalahari Desert. And aardvarks might not be able to cope. Jason G. Goldman reports. | Continue reading
Climate change is expected to bring more frequent droughts and heat waves to Africa’s Kalahari desert. And aardvarks might not be able to cope. Jason G. Goldman reports. | Continue reading
Deep-sea minerals, including nickel, copper, manganese and cobalt, are crucial to building clean-energy technologies | Continue reading
President Jair Bolsonaro’s government, meanwhile, has worked to erode Indigenous protections and ownership | Continue reading
One major reason is a lack of reliable, affordable electricity | Continue reading
The story of a macroscopic quantum system and a mathematical odyssey | Continue reading
Scientists used light to evoke an odor directly in a mouse brain—no nose involved | Continue reading
People in low-income neighborhoods eat more proteins from animals and less of them from vegetables, a study suggests | Continue reading
With rising seas threatening coastal communities, federal watchdog warns the government’s scattershot approach needs revising | Continue reading
The Karuk tribe and its allies are working to undo damage from a century of river development | Continue reading
Being a scientist should not require developing the grit to continually endure misogyny, discrimination, harassment, assault or bullying | Continue reading
If we’re all living in a simulation, as some have suggested, it would be a good, albeit risky, way to find out for sure | Continue reading
A novel technique turns brain cells into circuit components | Continue reading
A novel technique turns brain cells into circuit components | Continue reading
A world-famous scientist is depicted with a nuance befitting both her achievements and her struggles | Continue reading
Ideological, social and political values have always influenced research | Continue reading
The gritty work and the epic tale of space exploration | Continue reading
In the state of Rondônia, social inequities give diseases a powerful boost | Continue reading
Public health experts offer tips for evaluating the risks of visiting public places during the COVID-19 pandemic | Continue reading
The presidential candidate is getting advice from old guard Democrats, liberal activists and union favorites | Continue reading
Scientists spotted a mouse at the summit of Vulcán Llullaillaco, a 22,000-foot-tall volcano on the border of Chile and Argentina. Julia Rosen reports. | Continue reading
Pandemic highlights for the week | Continue reading
To get to the roots of disasters like this one, investigators rely on video footage, documents, interviews and other evidence | Continue reading
Late-stage clinical trials of the first two coronavirus vaccine candidates in the U.S. plan to recruit 60,000 Americans | Continue reading
Originally published in August 1946 | Continue reading
Our communal systems actually do much of the heavy lifting to keep us healthy or help us heal | Continue reading
A recent study shows how Venus could have explosively changed from habitable to deadly | Continue reading
Contributing editor W. Wayt Gibbs spoke with Arthur Caplan , head of the NYU School of Medicine’s division of medical ethics, about some of the ethical issues that researchers have to consider in testing and distributing vaccines against COVID-19. | Continue reading
An EPA proposal to weaken pollution controls could make the ongoing threat worse | Continue reading
Originally published in June 1894 | Continue reading
Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider suggest that muons and other “second-generation particles” obtain their mass from interacting with the Higgs, further strengthening the Standard Model | Continue reading
The scenarios foresaw leaky travel bans, a scramble for vaccines and disputes between state and federal leaders, but none could anticipate the current levels of dysfunction in the United States | Continue reading
No. The belief that people are suited to speak particular languages by biology is widespread—but wrong | Continue reading
A preexisting drug could buy time for snakebite treatment | Continue reading
The blast injured thousands and killed at least 78 people | Continue reading
The short hop could be a big leap toward future missions to Mars | Continue reading
An engaged and well-informed public has always been the foundation of our democracy | Continue reading
An outbreak in Italy in the 1630s forced him to find new ways of doing his research and connecting with his family | Continue reading
Loss of smell was sense most strongly associated with dementia risk. Christopher Intagliata reports. | Continue reading
A decline in smell was the sense loss most strongly associated with such risk in a recent study. Christopher Intagliata reports. | Continue reading
An invasive plant expert explains what could happen if enigmatic seeds shipped from China are released | Continue reading
Launching in 2022, the wide-field observatory will be one of three next-generation facilities meant to lift the veil on dark energy, dark matter and other cosmic mysteries | Continue reading
Climate has been a major driver of changes in vegetation over thousands of years—but not the only one | Continue reading