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We’ve made an artificially panpsychic world, where technology and nature are one.

A recent neutron star merger has defied astronomers’ expectations, leading them to question longstanding ideas about neutron stars and the supernovas that create them. “We have to go back to the drawing board.”

Questions and answers about the science of skin color.

Censorship didn’t worsen the deadly virus outbreak. Incompetence did.

Why the cognitive-map theory is misguided.

For decades, scientists have been intrigued by tiny viruses whose genetic material can be read both forward and backward. New research begins to explain this puzzling property.

Mathematicians have studied knots for centuries, but a new material is showing why some knots are better than others.

Vertical farming could make agriculture more robust and sustainable. To unlock that potential, scientists are redesigning crops for urban life.