The Sciences

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

The process finds minuscule amounts of radioactive material in metals

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

Scientists lost one of their best tools with the demise of the Arecibo telescope

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

Piecing together a paleontological puzzle

If so, it could explain some inconsistencies in our observations

Surprisingly, there’s some evidence that it can