The Sciences

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 

Second only to the U.S. in a fully successful Mars landing, China is now set to explore the Utopia Planitia region of the Red Planet’s surface

An analysis of the animal’s walking speed suggests that T. rex’s walking pace was close to that of a human. It’s too bad the king of the dinosaurs didn’t just walk when hungry.

As Aedes aegypti mosquitoes increase their range because of warming climate, genetic manipulation of the disease-carrying species could gain wider appeal

On a geologic timescale, the emergence of the human “dataome” is like a sudden invasion by extraterrestrials or an asteroid impact that precipitates a mass extinction

Statistics tell us that individuals are most likely to be somewhere around the middle part of their life. The same could be true of the human race

It is like when your cell phone keeps you awake in bed—except mosquitoes do not doom scroll when they stay up, they feast on your blood.

Debris from the 20-metric-ton booster reportedly splashed down in the Indian Ocean north of the Maldives

The Great Eastern Brood has been underground for 17 years. Here’s what the insects have been up to down there

Brain networks for memory and planning may have set us apart from Neandertals—and chimps