From a deep dive on a fatal space shuttle disaster to a study of a dozen iconic trees, these are our favorite titles this year Joe Spring, Riley Black, Shi En Kim, Dan Falk, Christian Elliott and ...

Why is it that people respect cancer research more than studies looking at wombat poop? Or why does space research belong in a funding hierarchy higher than other research? What distinguishes ...

What this year’s Nobels can teach us about science and humanity. By Alan Burdick and Katrina Miller We are journalists on The Times’s Science desk. Technology observers have grown increasingly vocal ...

Killer viruses. Artificial intelligence. Extreme weather. Microplastics. Mental health. These are just a few of the pressing issues on which governments need science to inform their policies. But the ...

Last month, we witnessed the viral sensation of several egregiously bad AI-generated figures published in a peer-reviewed article in Frontiers, a reputable scientific journal. Scientists on social ...

The world as we know it has been transformed by AI, but perhaps no field has been more profoundly affected than analytics and data science. While traditional data science practices have paved the way ...

Those dastardly scientists are at it again, this time developing a neural chip that allows you to turn off sleep. Soon, everyone has one – and then it stops being possible to turn the chip off, and ...

Gayle Anderson previews the new California Science Center exhibition Mummies of the World. Explore more than 30-naturally and intentionally preserved human and animal mummies from ancient Egypt, South ...

Julie Gould is a freelance journalist in London, and produces the Nature Careers Podcast. In the first episode of this six-part Working Scientist podcast series, Julie Gould explores the history of ...

The world creates 57 million tons of plastic pollution every year and spreads it from the deepest oceans to the highest mountaintop to the inside of people's bodies, according to a new study that also ...

From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year Joe Spring, ...