science

The long-term lessons America learns from the coronavirus pandemic will spell life or death.

Dr. Eric Lander is a pioneer in genomics. What role will he play in the new administration?

How would the ability to genetically customize children change society? Sci-fi author Eugene Clark explores the future on our horizon in Volume I of the “Genetic Pressure” series.

Can computers do calculations in multiple universes? Scientists are working on it. Step into the world of quantum computing.

Plan S is starting to take hold, but the cost is merely shifting even more to the researchers.

What lies in store for humanity? Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku explains how different life will be for your descendants—and maybe your future self, if the timing works out.

Habits are easier to hack and change when you understand how they work.

A study explores how your dog does when you’re not home.

The expansion of the universe is speeding up—contrary to what many physicists expected. A “heat death” is coming, but it’s not what you think.

The search for alien life is far too human-centric. Our flawed understanding of what life really is may be holding us back from important discoveries about the universe and ourselves.

Perspective twisting books on biology, social science, medical science, cosmology, and tech.

As morally sturdy as we may feel, it turns out that humans are natural hypocrites when it comes to passing moral judgment.

Fractal patterns are noticed by people of all ages, even small children, and have significant calming effects.

Is the quest to upload human consciousness and ditch our meat puppets the future—or is it fool’s gold?

There is a lot we don’t know about psychedelics, but what we do know makes them extremely important.

Gun violence is a public health crisis that is notoriously difficult to study because of politics. Finally, a new research initiative has the green light to collect life-saving data.

Scientists ripped up kids’ drawings. This is what they learned about relationships.

Monogamy is often considered a key component of traditional marriages, but it’s only half the story.

How a controversial study on psychic powers caused a revolution in psychology research.

Philosophers have been asking the question for hundreds of years. Now neuroscientists are joining the quest to find out.

The recent AstraZeneca offers a cautionary tale.

A biologist-reporter investigates his fungal namesake.

The Earth is not flat. Here’s how you can prove it.

We make school kids read “Lord of the Flies”—but it’s only half the story.

But most city dwellers weren’t seeing the science — they were seeing something out of Blade Runner.

Scientists have identified the largest ever assemblage of mammoth bones.

Northwell Health CEO Michael Dowling has an important favor to ask of the American people.

The young man died nearly 2,000 years ago in the volcanic eruption that buried Pompeii.

This wide-ranging, 13-course electrical engineering training is your next power move.

A new study shows how poor children are negatively impacted neurologically.