Category: Science

Its name is short — like its size — but the bee is one of Earth’s most important and busy creatures. (Image credit: Alan Nakkash

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft flies over the Mojave Desert in California on April 14, 2026.

Let’s start with what’s probably the most tired, overused joke in math: A topologist is someone who can’t tell a coffee cup from a doughnut.

What Albert Einstein was to 20th-century physics, Alexander Grothendieck was to 20th-century mathematics. He is much less well known because math gets technical even more

Skeletons of early modern whalers reveal widespread scurvy, pipe smoking and heavy physical labor.

Scientists found that blocking a protein best known for its role in asthma enhances cancer immunotherapy in preclinical models.

A new experiment confirms that photons passing through a cloud of atoms can spend a negative amount of time there, and the atoms themselves are

Best practices, including checking public E. coli reports and keeping your head above water can keep you safe while swimming.

An ocean current called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation will weaken by 50 percent by 2100. The question is what to do about it.

A simple, beginner-friendly telescope that makes it easy to get started and enjoy your first real views of the moon and planets.

Archaeologists recovered the 10-page wax notebook with Latin writing and its leather carrying case from a medieval latrine in Germany.

Doctors describe a strange case in which a tumor in a woman’s arm disappeared without specific treatment.

DNA can voyage along intercellular highways called tunneling nanotubes. It’s a phenomenon that could potentially spread tumor DNA to healthy cells.

The practice of freediving is teaching physiologists how humans stretch their physical and mental limits, which in turn may improve treatments for lung and heart