The Sciences

Climate change is bringing tourism and tension to Longyearbyen on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard

These simple organisms physically encode food locations to solve complex tasks

Science in meter and verse

A plethora of new countries and private companies are getting in on the quest to send people to orbit

Top news from around the world

Social strata of turkeys; moon bombs

Killer fungi, killer asteroids, buzzy cicadas, brain sensations, and more unsettling discoveries

If so, it could explain some inconsistencies in our observations

Surprisingly, there’s some evidence that it can

A new experiment shows that bats are born with a fixed reference for the speed of sound—and living in lighter air can throw it off.

Just one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems named 21 years ago has been solved

The International Society for Stem Cell Research relaxed the famous 14-day rule on culturing human embryos in its latest research guidelines