Science

“My whole world is the human voice,” says Harry Yeff. And he isn’t just referring to his previous life as...

Do people have a right to an unobstructed view of the heavens? For most of human history, such a question...

The Orion capsule has made its closest fly-by of the moon and sent back detailed images of its surface and...

Fast-growing, drought-tolerant trees are slowly spreading across grasslands on every continent except Antarctica. Given how desperate we are to reduce...

An ongoing Ebola outbreak has infected and killed dozens of people in Uganda. Health authorities in the country and] the...

The World Health Organization has changed its stance on "kangaroo care" for premature or small newborns who are clinically unstable,...

Things didn’t look particularly good at the start of COP27. The word on everyone’s lips was “trust”—specifically, the lack of...

Renewables are on track to generate more power than coal in the United States this year. But the question is...

The Colorado river is the lifeblood of the US south-west, but today it is drastically depleted due to overuse, megadrought...

Racial inequity biases algorithms, skews Covid-19 death rates, and exacerbates the digital divide. Your race is even a good predictor...

In early 2021 emergency room physician Torree McGowan hoped the worst of the pandemic was behind her. She and her...

A simulated version of Paris where universities and telecommunication hubs are connected by a quantum communication network suggests that existing...

The Aedes aegypti mosquito is not just a nuisance—it’s a known carrier of dengue, yellow fever, chikungunya, and Zika viruses. Distinguished by...

Life expectancy in most countries took a hit during the COVID pandemic. But the U.S. has seen a sharper drop-off...

The Eris rocket developed by Australian company Gilmour Space will be the first Australian system to go into orbit if...

A similar scenario played out in the 1990s, when a Tennessee naturalist named Lynn Faust read the confident published assertion...