Opinion

Quantum physics’ oddities seem less surprising if you stop thinking of atoms as tennis balls, and instead more like waves pushing through water

Science plays an enormous unseen role in keeping international avenues of contact open, even when political doors slam shut. We need to keep those channels open with China

The furor over a Nobel Prize winner’s derailed career lets scientists off the hook for their own responsibilities to fix a broken academic reward system

Drug users must be considered in health and climate preparedness efforts

The U.S. may not beat China at retrieving Martian rocks first, according to an independent review board’s conclusion. But the U.S. can still lead with an exchange of samples here on Earth

Whether or not UFOs exist, we need to pay attention to how they are influencing our politics and culture

For decades industry has claimed that curbing pollution costs too much, but the reality has proven otherwise. Here we go again, this time on power plant carbon emissions

Climate change is making heat waves stronger and longer. Naming and ranking them like we do with hurricanes will make governments, companies and people take hot days more seriously

A botched obituary underlines threats from both artificial intelligence and digital plagiarism mills to pollute the news with misinformation

The Y chromosome was once used to label people as criminal. A new complete Y chromosome sequence just might combat this dangerous myth

This is why we misinterpret life’s weird and wonderful random events

We need to figure out if there is a constitutional right to compute