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Richard Powers on his 3 greatest revelations while writing his latest novel, Playground.

Polls capture shifting, conflicted public views about science.

Can cryogenically freezing coral stop time long enough to save them?

What violent galaxy smashups may have wrought across the universe.

The blueprint was set at least 25,000 years ago.

It’s complicated.

Imagining a conversation between the two great minds.

How scientists over history excavated the fakes.

Two theoretical physicists have a lively conversation about how abstract concepts can feel down-to-Earth.

Don’t underestimate this slender predator from the British grasslands.

Neurologists are just beginning to understand Alice in Wonderland syndrome.

Even when we think we know them, we don’t.