The Sciences

Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek made extraordinary observations of blood cells, sperm cells and bacteria with his microscopes. But it turns out the lens technology he used was quite ordinary.

What is unprecedented is not just the speed and focus with which the community responded to the pandemic but also the singular willingness of scientists all over the world to share new ideas and data immediately and transparently

The mysteries packed inside these invisible space objects stretch our concepts of space and time.

Surprising new data from the Muon g-2 experiment are turning the classical model on its head

The peak is one of the world’s most active volcanoes, last erupting in 2002

An interstellar treaty with other advanced civilizations could stave off death by domain wall

A series of experiments shows, remarkably, that it just might

There may be realistic ways to create cosmic bridges predicted by general relativity

Some of these peepers have eyepopping abilities

Their structures were once controversial. Now researchers have discovered quasicrystals in the aftermath of a 1945 bomb test

The discovery of exotic arachnids reveals as much about the structure of science as it does about the creatures

Those who refuse to consider an unconventional idea in science are disturbingly similar to those who refused to look through Galileo’s telescope