The Sciences

The anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s historic voyage to orbit is a chance to reflect on how far human spaceflight has come—and where it’s going next

Bill Nelson, Biden’s nominee, exemplifies the agency’s pork-barrel, male-dominated past

Scientists have known for decades that oyster mushrooms feasted on roundworms—and they’ve finally figured out how their toxins work

Following Hurricane Maria, a Puerto Rican colony of rhesus macaques broadened their social networks. Could humans do the same post-COVID?

Particles called muons are behaving weirdly, and that could mean a huge discovery.

From more than 1,000 proposals, the scientists that hoped to perform the observatory’s historic first studies now know their fate

He was an important physicist, but the press and the public saw him as a prophet—and he didn’t go out of his way to discourage them

Now on the surface, the interplanetary aircraft could soar as early as next week

The two cities’ rock doves are genetically distinct, research shows.

We don’t know, but we could try to find out by searching for it on planets orbiting the very oldest stars

Underneath the shiny wrapper, a chocolate bunny is a fermented food

Fossilized pollen and leaves reveal that the meteorite that caused the extinction of nonavian dinosaurs also reshaped South America’s plant communities to yield the planet’s largest rain forest