It spans over 11 billion years of cosmic history

Humans have never taken photos of the moon like this

Astronomers find a pair of super close, supermassive black holes for the first time

Leonardo da Vinci, polymath and victim of the vagaries of science funding, was born on this day

Crafting a spacesuit demanded perfection from seamstresses to gluers to engineers — every stitch could mean life or death

The racist origin story of the most common college entrance exam

You’re never really by yourself in nature

The next few days were instrumental in the history of LSD

“It’s a sandwich generation, but on steroids”

The effects of cocaine pollution in the world’s waterways

We may get an exceptionally strong El Niño this year, but we’ve been tracking the climatic cycle since 1578

Timing is key

These mysterious species have a lot of tricks

They’re particularly good at remembering where their prey is hiding

Graveyards are teeming with life

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