A debate on minds, matter and mechanism | Continue reading
This event is costing America a lot more than her dignity. | Continue reading
Much of the treasure trove of Apollo 11 images is rarely shown | Continue reading
The faraway world’s demotion more than a decade ago opened a celestial can of worms | Continue reading
Given medicine’s poor record, physicians should prescribe and patients consume far fewer medications, a new book argues. | Continue reading
Life scientists need new training to grapple with their discipline’s explosion of data | Continue reading
Identifying an interstellar meteorite— ‘Oumuamua’s cousin — required a national-security waiver | Continue reading
If we don’t know how AIs make decisions, how can we trust what they decide? | Continue reading
Renowned discoverer of order underlying chaos was surprising skeptical of claims that computers were creating a revolutionary new science. | Continue reading
California's Institute for Regenerative Medicine, a kind of mini-NIH, does crucial basic research without federal funding | Continue reading
Benchmarking is not just for headlines; it shapes cities’ global imagination | Continue reading
It's the fungus mushrooms are made of, but it can also produce everything from plastics to plant-based meat to a scaffolding for growing organs—and much more | Continue reading
The fantasy series highlights profound questions of philosophy and psychology | Continue reading
It’s just so easy to let moments of personal glory overshadow the collaborative marvels that made them possible | Continue reading
Come visit some very unusual sedimentary rocks on Seattle's Richmond Beach | Continue reading
How ability can grow out of seeming disability | Continue reading
A new analysis of a famous fossil suggests that there may be more feathered dinosaurs in Germany’s lithographic limestone than we currently know | Continue reading
If we’re a dud cosmic experiment, is there hope? | Continue reading
2400 years separate two people with whom this computer science term is associated | Continue reading
The real way to combat them is with blockchain technology | Continue reading
Desensitizing sufferers with a skin patch could be a safer and more effective than current approaches | Continue reading
In the first of three posts, an ecologist looks at how citizens and planners are responding to the threat | Continue reading
My son's case shows that an emphasis on patient experience data could foster drug development breakthroughs | Continue reading
The real way to combat them is with blockchain technology | Continue reading
AI finds new insights into molecular tumor properties using images of cells and tissue | Continue reading
He was the first to survey the Colorado River, 150 years ago—and his ideas about water resources in that arid region were prescient | Continue reading
More accurately known as perinatal anxiety, and like most people, I had no idea it existed until it struck me | Continue reading
Congestion, rising housing prices, rising cost of living, and increased homelessness are all stressors—but so-called “social compacts” can help | Continue reading
We can now identify risk factors that seem to affect a developing fetus | Continue reading
The technology holds vast potential for insights into the workings of human brains | Continue reading
Researchers are calling into question authenticity as a scientifically viable concept | Continue reading
A pair of fossil skulls reveal how Smilodon fought with each other | Continue reading
Dogs aren't the only ones who can do science. The era of cat science is now | Continue reading
Just like climate deniers, they’re out to obfuscate and debase the scientists and conservationists trying to save the world—and maybe get rid of a few pesky species in the process | Continue reading
A sugary beverage tax is just a start, but it exemplifies the population-wide approach we need | Continue reading
We have more to fear from natural pathogens than from biological weapons | Continue reading
The poet who discovered Shor’s algorithm answers questions about quantum computers and other mysteries. | Continue reading
The public pays taxes to support research; they should be able to access the results | Continue reading
The remains of our distant relatives evoke more than just data points | Continue reading
Unfortunately, career vs. family is too often still seen as an either/or choice. | Continue reading
Don’t let sports competitions be shaped by misguided “T Talk” | Continue reading
Psychological research unveils a central element of individual and group differences | Continue reading
Corporate interests, including the fossil fuel, auto and tobacco industries, are searching for ways to undermine the science that says particulate pollution kills | Continue reading
Plans for giant particle accelerators of the future focus attention on how scientific discoveries are really made | Continue reading
Be glad human STDs do not include this one | Continue reading
The extinction crisis threatens life all over the planet, but scientists are cautious about declaring a species extinct too quickly | Continue reading
A tiny fossil skull reveals the oldest known vertebrate capable of crunching hard-shelled prey | Continue reading