A Poet of Science Who Shook Faith in God: Eminent biographer Richard Holmes reveals how Tennyson predated Darwin and speaks to us today

What It Would Be Like to Surf Five Distant Planets: A surfing safari of the cosmos

Were You Born to Love Music?: How you respond to art—from poetry, to visual art, to music—may be partly written in your DNA

These Scientists Are Proposing a New Law of Nature: Entropy isn’t the final word. Time also brings order to the universe.

The Bad Seed and the Problem of Blame: A conversation with behavioral geneticist Kathryn Paige Harden about the heritability of vice

Why I don’t root for the Many Worlds team

AI Might Not Harm Us in the Way You Think: Researchers are divided over AI’s cognitive harms—and whether we should use these tools at all.

He Erased Memory in Mice. Then Thought About Erasing His Own: Sunk in grief, this neuroscientist discovered the power of memory in himself.

In Contact, the great science advocate posed a religious question about the cosmos.

How This Haunting Hurricane Illusion Forms: Powerful storms like Hurricane Melissa foment an odd phenomenon called the “stadium effect” at their centers

What Happens in Space Matters on Earth: Dagomar Degroot’s three greatest revelations while writing Ripples on a Cosmic Ocean

The Cure Hiding in a Rotten Eggplant: Bacteriophage therapy’s new renaissance

What Is Your Brain Doing on Psychedelics? Something is happening here, but neuroscientists don’t know what it is.

This article explores the impact of the Trump administration's policies surrounding science funding and immigration on science.

How AI Is Helping Archaeologists Make Discoveries: New clues about ancient civilizations are being unearthed from the data.

The wee world of nanoscale research, which involves manipulating materials measuring just a billionth of a meter, yielded these mini marvels.

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Computational biology is uncovering the immune system’s tricks for identifying foreign invaders.

Few Mammals Sleep as Deeply as the Ampurta: How a threatened Australian marsupial is thriving in the face of drought.

The Indomitable Jane Goodall: Reflections and memories from those who knew the trailblazing primatologist best

How the blustery rhetoric of Trump and Kennedy on autism makes life harder for local physicians—and their patients.

Scientists have discovered the source of spooky will-o'-the-wisp lights from ancient lore, which may have also sparked life on Earth.

Our Dark, Unvaccinated Future: Diseases that cause suffocation, paralysis, and childhood death are poised to come surging back.

Should we grant legal rights to extraterrestrial life before we have even met any in the cosmos? Some scholars say yes.

What’s Wrong with Having an AI Friend? Psychologist Paul Bloom on why chatbots make good companions. And why they don’t.

The Queer Lives of Frogs: What American green frogs teach us about sex, science, and the unexpected messiness of biology

What to Know About Mirror Life: Scientists want to create a biological Bizarro World, building cells with molecules mirroring natural ones.

Looking for habitable worlds? Check the ones with extreme swings.

Can I Give You Some Advice? I’d tell you not to read this article, but you’d probably ignore me and simply decide for yourself.

H.A. Rey recreated star maps with wit, grace, and accuracy.

This biochemist is determined to create a new life form by reversing the shape of molecules.

Lessons for our current Earth from the geologic past

Laura Poppick’s 3 greatest revelations while writing her book, Strata: Stories from Deep Time

Yes, your brain does. It created it.

How one animal's oddity inspired Sewall Wright to take on one of Darwin's big ideas