Science

Life in all of its complexity

Editor in Chief Nancy Shute talks about life’s complexities, from its evolution ...

An asteroid could hit the moon in 2032, scattering debr...

Researchers are keeping an eye on the building-sized asteroid 2024 YR4, which ha...

He made beer that’s also a vaccine. Now controversy is ...

An NIH scientist’s maverick approach reveals legal, ethical, moral, scientific a...

Breaking Ground Crossword

Solve the crossword from our January 2026 issue, in which we take a crack at geo...

This newfound cascade of events may explain some female...

Gut problems like irritable bowel syndrome are often worse in women. A mouse stu...

New Hubble images may solve the case of a disappearing ...

A massive collision between two asteroid-sized bodies around a nearby star offer...

As gambling addiction spreads, one scientist’s work rev...

Psychiatrist Robert Custer spent his life convincing doctors that compulsive gam...

A new hunt for an Earth analog begins

The Terra Hunting Experiment will track the wobbles of dozens of stars nightly f...

Polar plunges aren’t just for the daring

Bragging rights and an adrenaline rush aren’t the only reasons to start the year...

Dark matter ‘nuggets’ could explain the Milky Way’s mys...

A mysterious excess of far-ultraviolet light seen across the Milky Way could com...

This giant microbe organizes its DNA in a surprising way

3-D microscopy shows that the giant bacterium Thiovulum imperiosus squeezes its ...

A quantum trick helps trim bloated AI models

Machine learning techniques that make use of tensor networks could manipulate da...

Ancient DNA rewrites the tale of when and how cats left...

Cats were domesticated in North Africa, but spread to Europe only about 2,000 ye...

How to levitate objects sans magic

It’s possible to defy gravity using sound waves, magnets or electricity, but tod...

Mosquitos use it to suck blood. Researchers used it to ...

A mosquito proboscis repurposed as a 3-D printing nozzle can print filaments aro...

‘Black Religion in the Madhouse’ examines psychiatry an...

In the aftermath of slavery, white psychiatrists diagnosed Black people with “re...