The Sciences

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

Margaretta Hare Morris discovered that the hordes of chirping insects that will emerge en masse this spring come in more than one species

A new model cuts through the chaos to reach the best-yet predictions of complex gravitational interactions

The Long March 5B rocket’s core stage could plummet to Earth as early as May 9