US science is worth fighting for, but so are the science projects and scientists denied opportunities. Here are 4 paths all worth exploring.

While ice itself is slick, slippery, and difficult to navigate across under most circumstances, skaters easily glide across the ice.

Well before plants and animals, there were fungi.

As we crank up our search for more powerful AI, maybe we should slow down and reimagine the shape and language of intelligence itself.

Scientific truths remain true regardless of belief. These 10, despite contrary claims, remain vitally important as 2025 draws to a close.

Having explored the Mariana Trench, the summit of Everest, and the edge of space, Victor Vescovo knows what awe feels like in its most dramatic forms. What surprised him most was how often that same feeling appears in everyday life.

The first world beyond Earth for human habitability should be the Moon, not Mars. This is why we should terraform our lunar neighbor first.

In his new book, the popular science writer tells the story of how scientists discovered the “gaseous ocean” we all swim in — and the trillions of invisible life forms we share it with.

We're all entitled to our own opinions, no matter how ill-informed they are. But facts are facts; we can't just choose the ones we prefer.

“While society's been humming along and enjoying all these advances in agriculture and medicine, in the last 50 or 60 years, ecologists have learned a lot about how nature works. I've codified these into a set of rules called the 'Serengeti Rules.'”

In 8,000-mile journey, a male humpback ditches Colombia for Tanzania — however, scientists don’t know why he made the trip.

It's the ultimate setup for a Thanksgiving Day disaster. The physics of water and its solid, liquid, and gas phases compels us not to do it.

Of the millions of substances people encounter daily, health researchers have focused on only a few hundred. Those in the emerging field of exposomics want to change that.

Great tidal ranges are relatively rare on a global scale — and can be very deadly to the unsuspecting foreshore walker.

Make Sunsets is bringing solar geoengineering from sci-fi to reality.

The laws of physics aren't changing. But the Earth's conditions are different than what they used to be, and so are hurricanes as a result.

You could call this rectangle covering parts of Iran, Iraq, and the Arabian Peninsula the “Oven Window.”

In the 1970s, James Lovelock proposed that the biosphere was not just green scruff quivering on Earth's surface. Instead, it managed to take over the geospheres.

Thanks to the Coriolis force, hurricanes never cross the equator.

Across the subterranean United States, not all rocks were created equally.

Plagues, war, and genocide were literally frozen in time.

13.8 columnist Marcelo Gleiser reflects on his recent voyage to Earth's last wild continent.

In 1957, humanity launched our first satellite; today's number is nearly 10,000, with 500,000+ more planned. Space is no longer pristine.

If there’s life lurking on the moons of Saturn and Jupiter, could our instruments even detect it?

Five new places scientists have uncovered plastics.

Do the benefits of plastics outweigh the costs?

Our cosmic home, planet Earth, has been through a lot over the past 4.5 billion years. Here are some of its most spectacular changes

Along with obsidian that dazzled scientists in Canada.

ÄIO’s fermentation process creates healthy, sustainable oils and fats by upcycling low-value industry organics.

Without even realizing it, we’ve actually become pretty god-like in our powers.