There’s a new front in the war over the safety of chemicals used to make nonstick pans.
NASA took advantage of the recent close approach of the Psyche probe to Mars to calibrate its observation instruments.
Garlic, as your grandmother may have told you, repels mosquitoes; it also completely blocks them from mating and laying eggs. Diallyl disulfide, it turns out, deserves the credit.
It’s long been accepted that the smoother the surface, the lower the aerodynamic drag. That turns out not always to be the case.
There are black holes that are too big to be born from the death of a star but aren’t quite supermassive either. There’s finally evidence for where those came from.
To keep communications secure in a post-quantum world, cryptographers are digging down into the concept of cause and effect.
Once dismissed as empty expanses between galaxies, cosmic voids are becoming one of the most promising tools for probing the universe’s biggest mysteries.
A fascinating, unclassifiable orb found in the Gulf of Alaska is not an alien object, as some speculated, but the remains of a poorly documented animal.
The many methods we use to gather data ultimately boil down to either counting or comparing.
The impending arrival of El Niño will help keep the number of storms low. But it only takes one landfall to create a catastrophe.
Climate change is helping create conditions that are driving the rodent boom—dubbed a ratada—in Argentina.
One health provider who works on the ground says that basic medical equipment like masks and hand sanitizers are in short supply due to funding cuts.
Major fires are threatening homes and ecologically sensitive areas following a hot, dry winter.
Recreation.gov was supposed to make access to public lands more equitable and streamlined. Instead, it’s rife with bots and inequality, while a government contractor benefits.
Before vaccines, some parents intentionally exposed their children to the virus. In the internet age, that thinking is resurfacing.
CAR-T cell therapy is already a potent treatment for certain cancers. Now, a small study is showing early promise for managing HIV.
The work of Peter Aaby and Christine Stabell Benn has long been controversial. Until Robert F. Kennedy Jr. became US health policy chief, most vaccine scientists tended to ignore it. Now they can’t.
The discovery from the Trinity nuclear test site shows how extreme conditions can result in materials never before seen in nature or in the lab.
States across the US are looking to take major sources of pollution and use them to generate much-needed power.
On May 18, an asteroid about the size of Chicago’s Cloud Gate will fly four times closer to Earth than the moon.