The trailblazing astronomer lends her name to the newest space telescope slated to deliver unprecedented insight into the universe

It’s the first definitive proof of the angrite parent body

The ringed planet stuns in old photos

An ancient makeup bottle turns up far from its Egyptian home

Urban planning wasn’t so different 4,000 years ago

As researchers age, they produce less disruptive work

The 50-year mystery suggests humans may be more rational than we thought

But there’s a lot we still don’t know about these intrusive thoughts of food

Our current achievement economy may deserve the blame

The Indigenous people of Taiwan call it “the tree that hits the moon”

They punch above their weight

Turns out getting rid of large swaths of humanity benefits nature

Screwworms used plagued the livestock industry for decades

New research may upend the cognitive primacy of humans and other large-brained vertebrates

Built to track enemy submarines, the Navy’s underwater listening network inadvertently revealed that whales may be singing across entire oceans

A conversation with behavioral geneticist Kathryn Paige Harden about the heritability of vice

Is it absurd to think that science can inform our values?

Seemingly harmless data tweaks are undermining the integrity of the entire field. We must define the problem to prevent it