Women are outliving men by nearly six years—and COVID and drug overdoses are a major cause, according to a new report | Continue reading
The U.S. should back away from updating its obsolescent nuclear weapons, in particular silo-launched missiles that needlessly risk catastrophe | Continue reading
The risks of a $1.5-trillion plan to build up the U.S. nuclear arsenal | Continue reading
The U.S. is beginning an ambitious, controversial reinvention of its nuclear arsenal. The project comes with incalculable costs and unfathomable risks | Continue reading
The U.S. has embarked on the largest and most expensive nuclear build-out ever. The U.S. military says it is necessary to replace an aging nuclear arsenal. But critics fear the risks. | Continue reading
A member of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation digs into a decades-long mystery: how 15 intercontinental ballistic missiles came to be siloed on her ancestral lands. | Continue reading
A member of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation digs into a decades-long mystery: how 15 intercontinental ballistic missiles came to be siloed on her ancestral lands. | Continue reading
A college professor and his students explain what they learned from bringing ChatGPT into the classroom | Continue reading
Growing evidence suggests certain hair products marketed toward Black women may be harmful to their health. Scientists, entrepreneurs and policymakers are taking steps to fix it | Continue reading
Amid uncertainty over space agencies’ plans for future Venus exploration, enthusiasm for a private-sector mission grows | Continue reading
To deal with invasive hippos that were brought to Colombia by drug lord Pablo Escobar—and that threaten the country’s biodiversity—the nation’s government is sterilizing, exporting and euthanizing the animals | Continue reading
The National Weather Service has launched the first flood forecasting system with precise, real-time data showing spots that are at imminent risk of inundation | Continue reading
Daytime naps of about 30 minutes really improve your thinking and may spark creativity | Continue reading
With many large newborn genomic screening studies launching, we need to answer questions about cost, fairness and tangible benefits of a promising technology | Continue reading
Virtual meetings and video calls don’t quite stack up to in-person interaction—and a new study proves it | Continue reading
Egypt’s famous Sphinx may have originated as a rock feature carved by erosion that ancient Egyptians further refined into the iconic monument | Continue reading
Researchers created a monkey that combines cells from two different individuals; a lab technique gave it a strange green glow | Continue reading
Researchers created a monkey that combines cells from two different individuals; a lab technique gave it a strange green glow | Continue reading
A new facility will suck carbon dioxide from the air, showcasing the potential of a nascent industry that some say is crucial to fighting climate change | Continue reading
As interest and support for psychedelic research grows, scientists share their hopes for the future. | Continue reading
Equanimity, a key ingredient of mindfulness meditation, helps people face life’s ups and downs | Continue reading
Too many people are suffering from long COVID and other postviral syndromes. Anthony Fauci says we need to step up funding and research now | Continue reading
Too many people are suffering from long COVID and other postviral syndromes. Anthony Fauci says we need to step up funding and research now | Continue reading
Two farmers’ almanacs say this winter will be cold and snowy, but NOAA, the top U.S. weather agency, disagrees | Continue reading
As social media more frequently exposes people to brutality and untruths, we need to treat it like a consumer product, and that means product safety regulations | Continue reading
The James Webb Space Telescope’s studies of the Crab nebula may shed new light on the supernova remnant’s origins | Continue reading
The number of homes located within the perimeters of wildfires has doubled since the 1990s. A surprising ecosystem is responsible for the risk | Continue reading
Electrical stimulation to the lower spine has improved the mobility of a man with Parkinson’s disease for the past two years, but researchers say larger clinical trials are needed to assess the device | Continue reading
Rising temperatures are increasing the likelihood of severe drought in Syria, Iraq and Iran | Continue reading
Eunice Newton Foote showed that carbon dioxide traps the heat of the sun in 1856, beating the so-called father of the greenhouse effect by at least three years. Why was she forgotten? | Continue reading
Surgeons transplanted part of a face and an entire eyeball into a man with severe electrical burns. He is not yet able to see out of the eye, but preliminary evidence suggests it may retain some function | Continue reading
Food insecurity saps the health of people and economies worldwide. Addressing it would pay dividends | Continue reading
Reproducing in space is just one of many reasons we should delay settlements beyond Earth | Continue reading
Developmental biologist Alfonso Martinez Arias believes that the emergent properties of cells, rather than the “instructions” written by genes, are the key to understanding how bodies are built | Continue reading
The planet just saw the hottest span of 12 months in human history because of climate change driven by the burning of fossil fuels | Continue reading
The outcomes of state elections this week may mean more natural gas plants in Texas, greater use of climate law funds in Kentucky and the continuation of the status quo in Maine and Mississippi | Continue reading
The earliest active supermassive black hole ever seen offers clues on how these enigmatic objects first formed | Continue reading
One of the world’s most prestigious science journals has retracted a major paper from embattled superconductivity researcher Ranga Dias | Continue reading
A new facial approximation brings to life an Incan girl who was killed 500 years ago as part of a sacrificial ritual | Continue reading
The Lucy spacecraft’s encounter with asteroid Dinkinesh has revealed a bizarre “contact binary” double-moon companion | Continue reading
Psychedelic researchers are engaged in heated debate over whether the mind-altering effects of the drugs are necessary for realizing their therapeutic potential. | Continue reading
Images of sari-wearing space scientists in India remind us that research is global and cultural dress should be welcome in the workplace | Continue reading
Ultraprocessed foods have become a mainstay of modern diets and could be taking a toll on our health | Continue reading
A rise in IQs in recent decades is mirrored by a trend showing an increase in adults’ ability to concentrate | Continue reading
Fresh images show off the Euclid space telescope’s ability to capture crisp pictures of vast swaths of sky | Continue reading
Without policies to promote electric vehicle purchases and build up charging infrastructure, such vehicles might produce fewer emissions reductions than hoped | Continue reading
A new tool based on machine learning uses features of writing style to distinguish between human and AI authors | Continue reading