We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
Biological anthropologist Fatimah Jackson is leading an effort to prevent history from repeating.
In sci-fi, AI can navigate the unknowns and — ideally — keep human travelers safe. But it’s not intelligent enough to do that yet.
Proposed federal rules would rely on political appointees to decide how a lot of U.S. science gets done. History shows the consequences of such actions.
In her new book, science journalist Roberta Kwok takes readers behind the scenes to understand how researchers get nature to give up its secrets.
There’s never been a good method to check for violations of the Outer Space Treaty’s prohibition of nuclear weapons in space.
The gold standard of scientific review, peer review by researchers’ colleagues, is in crisis. AI might offer a solution but has problems of its own.
Renaissance painter Jan Brueghel the Elder painted a bat eating a bird — 400 years before scientists would document the behavior.
Emerging research suggests overusing digital devices can be harmful, especially to mental health. But does being overly online truly rot our brains?
The iconic one-eyed monster coming to movie screens in July in The Odyssey might have more in common with tiny water critters than with humans.
