Writers, artists, photographers and researchers share the stories behind the stories | Continue reading
What works to improve health equity? And it might be time to end the leap second | Continue reading
Occam’s razor holds that the simplest explanation is closest to the truth. But the real world is quite complex | Continue reading
We have been adding “leap seconds” to time kept by our atomic clocks, but soon we may have to subtract one. Are the tiny adjustments worth the bother? | Continue reading
Fortunately, recognition and treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in grown-ups are getting better | Continue reading
Vince Beiser’s tour of the “Electro-Digital Age” puts resource extraction at the center | Continue reading
Computer chess champ; dental chloroform killer | Continue reading
Rwanda’s health minister says authorities are tracing every potential contact of the index case in the country’s outbreak of Marburg virus disease to reduce the risk of wider spread | Continue reading
A 2013 report from the World Bank placed the Tampa Bay area seventh on a list of the top 10 global cities facing the costliest damage from coastal floods | Continue reading
Hera will arrive in 2026 at Dimorphos, an asteroid deliberately struck by NASA’s DART spacecraft | Continue reading
Both Trump and Harris pledge to make drug prices affordable and health care accessible. Here’s how their policies differ | Continue reading
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics was given to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for development of techniques that laid the foundation for revolutionary advances in artificial intelligence | Continue reading
Parts of Florida still recovering from Hurricane Helene will face their second major storm in just two weeks | Continue reading
New research dispels the notion that human beings can continue to radically extend their lifespan | Continue reading
Two injured sea creatures merged to form a “Franken-jelly” | Continue reading
Scientists reveal the identity of a cannibalized captain from the doomed Northwest Passage expedition of 1845 to 1848 | Continue reading
Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump offer starkly different responses to gun violence | Continue reading
The award was given to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for a discovery of an important mechanism of gene regulation in cells | Continue reading
We cover the spread of Marburg virus, a stem cell treatment for diabetes and the way dolphins smile in this week’s news roundup. | Continue reading
California’s lawsuit against Exxon is about ending the lie that most plastic is recyclable | Continue reading
With voting underway, election officials in flood-ravaged North Carolina must mail new ballots and replace destroyed polling places after Hurricane Helene | Continue reading
Experts say the effects of global warming are playing a greater role in where people decide to move | Continue reading
Claims of worlds orbiting Barnard’s star have been made before. But an advanced instrument could provide the breakthrough that finally confirms the star hosts a planetary system | Continue reading
A climate advocate learns firsthand on the price of climate change in our lives, and calls for voters to head off future disasters | Continue reading
Both U.S. presidential candidates voice support for innovation in AI, but Kamala Harris has been more outspoken about its risks to individuals | Continue reading
The night sky isn’t perfectly dark—instead it glows faintly, and the source isn’t exactly local | Continue reading
Today’s mathematicians grapple with higher-order mathematical questions and real-world applications. | Continue reading
People living near industrial facilities often have few details about the chemicals inside, which poses major risks when floods occur | Continue reading
Polls show an increased number of Black women voters back Kamala Harris. Her emphasis on maternal mortality, reproductive rights and gun control may be contributing | Continue reading
Only 2 percent of households in parts of Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina that were flooded by Hurricane Helene can get insurance payments | Continue reading
FDA medical examiner Frances Oldham Kelsey saved American lives by refusing to approve thalidomide. But millions of pills had been sent to doctors in the U.S. for so-called clinical trials | Continue reading
Sooner or later a doomsday asteroid will wipe out most life on Earth—unless, that is, we prevent threatening space rocks from hitting us in the first place | Continue reading
A model suggests a massive uplift caused by a phenomenon called “river piracy” partly explains Everest’s impressive height | Continue reading
Whoever wins the 2024 presidential election will face heightened nuclear geopolitics, deadlines on nuclear deals with Russia and Iran and decisions on a $2-trillion weapons-modernization effort | Continue reading
Linguist and sociophonetician Nicole Holliday analyzes the language used by candidates in the recent presidential and vice presidential debates | Continue reading
Wiring diagram lays out connections between nearly 140,000 neurons and reveals new types of nerve cell | Continue reading
Hurricane Helene forced dozens of medical facilities across the southern U.S. to evacuate patients, underscoring the human costs of climate change | Continue reading
The average tropical cyclone in the U.S. ultimately causes about 7,000 to 11,000 excess deaths, new research finds | Continue reading
As Microsoft strikes a deal to restart a reactor at Three Mile Island to power AI, nuclear specialists weigh in on the unprecedented process | Continue reading
In a dense Republic of Congo rainforest, scientists have mapped a network of strangely open clearings where wild beasts go to eat and hang out | Continue reading
The presidential candidates have vastly divergent records on and plans for protecting access to reproductive health care, including abortion and IVF | Continue reading
Food science can explain why mozzarella melts like a dream while feta and ricotta don’t | Continue reading
Alternatives to Google Search include Bing, DuckDuckGo, Brave Search and Ecosia | Continue reading
A new class of drugs treats pain at the periphery. Here’s what that could mean for those with chronic pain. | Continue reading
‘Professor Pickleball’ reveals the science behind the U.S.’s fastest growing sport | Continue reading
The conservative Project 2025 playbook for a possible Trump presidency calls for cutting aid for disasters such as Hurricane Helene | Continue reading
Human anatomy is delightfully varied, but female athletes are heavily criticized for not conforming to socially accepted bodily norms | Continue reading
A surprisingly simple concept shook the foundations of mathematics | Continue reading