Category: Science

Solve the crossword from our November 2026 issue, in which we cultivate an understanding of growth curves.

Archaeologists digging at a 13,800-year-old site in interior Alaska have unearthed thousands of artifacts and fossils, including what may be the bones of the earliest

“Necklaces” of ultracold atoms have provided new evidence to support a nearly 100-year-old quantum theory. In 1931, physicists were trying to use quantum mechanics to

Shortly after Artemis II splashdown on April 10, 2026, U.S. Navy divers captured underwater imagery of the Orion spacecraft’s heat shield.

Benchmarks are the rulers of AI, in both senses of the word. As measuring sticks, they work according to an extremely simple logic: If you

New simulations reveal which battle moves the skulls of horned dinosaurs could take — and which might have been a very bad idea.

We’ve studied the moon with robotic spacecraft for decades. What do human observers add? Artemis II’s first science results offer some answers.

A fossil that sat in a museum collection for over a century is a previously unknown species of predatory dinosaur, researchers have found. The discovery

Stellar cores called white dwarfs come in an astonishing array of colors, including what scientists say is the first known green star and the reddest

The technology could get those with ALS, Parkinson’s disease and brain injuries “talking” again.

Astronomers have used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to break down the cause of a remarkable formation of radio waves they have nicknamed the “Treble Clef”

People may think of soil as just dirt, but it is anything but inert. Beneath your feet, a vast network of mycorrhizal fungi is hard

While working on his land in a village in northern Egypt, a man made an astonishing discovery: the remains of two massive statues of Ramesses

Illustration of the flightless Jurassic bird Yuezhuornis yangyuanensis, which had features of both birds and dinosaurs. (Image credit: Mr. Chung-Tat Cheung) Paleontologists in China have