NASA spots the possible remains of a massive supernova in the middle of the Milky Way
If the supernova remnant is confirmed, it would be one of the closest to the supermassive black hole that lies in the center of the Milky Way
Glaciers are secretly teeming with life
How Erini Lambrides went from seeking theater stardom to studying the stars at NASA
Inside the race to develop a new Ebola vaccine
Today’s Spellements
Math Puzzle: Go to great lengths
Tonima Tasmin Ananna
Poem: ‘The Soliloquy of Schrödinger’s Cat’
Science crossword: Looking to the future
U.S. science is in chaos
On our radar
Craig Venter
My childhood in science
When science is under siege, history offers a playbook
Atul Gawande
Create as many words as you can!
Stretch your math muscles with these puzzles.
Why we'll never live in space
The puzzle of the first black holes
What if we never find dark matter?
Disclosure Day raises a big question: How do you talk to aliens?
Inside the high-stakes effort to bring natural grass to World Cup stadiums
World Cup kicks off amid outbreak tracking as Mars mission ends and AI fights heat up
Inside the multiyear effort to rename PCOS
World-first: therapy to make cells young again given to a person
The first participant has been treated in a landmark clinical trial of cellular reprogramming, which aims to rejuvenate aging cells
Science confirms: Cats help you only when there’s something in it for them
Dogs spontaneously aid struggling humans the way young children do—whereas cats wait until they stand to benefit
See the hidden fungal network so big it could stretch to Proxima Centauri and back
Researchers have created the first high-resolution global map of the extent of one of Earth’s largest—and least visible—living networks
AI’s Victories in Go Inspire Better Human Game Playing
Famed AI wins in Go let human players rethink their moves in a whole new way
How to tell if your dog is left-pawed or right-pawed, according to science
A step-by-step guide to the “Doginburgh Inventory,” a new pawedness test developed by dog behavior researchers
NASA’s experimental quiet supersonic plane passes another critical milestone
NASA’s X-59 research aircraft reached its target speed and altitude for the first time on Friday
