The Sciences

The popular term “quantum supremacy,” which refers to quantum computers outperforming classical ones, is uncomfortably reminiscent of “white supremacy”

Currently, STEM-related policy is administered by a bewildering array of entities, which dilutes its effectiveness

These algae exchange vital chemicals with bacteria that live around their surface

The president’s letter to his new science adviser emphasizes the crucial role science plays in our society—much as Roosevelt did in a similar missive in 1944

They have some advantages for people with disabilities—but plenty of problems as well

With the space agency’s latest rover set to touch down on February 18, here is the agenda for its initial months

Our national leaders must take on racist-driven violence in the U.S.

A cosmologist and his colleagues tackle a centuries-old cartographic conundrum

Researchers extracted DNA from fossils that are more than a million years old, illuminating the origins of the woolly mammoth and the Columbian mammoth

The robotic rover’s touchdown is meant to be the most accurate ever attempted on the Red Planet, opening the way for future pinpoint landfalls throughout the solar system

Its potential ability to “fix” people at the genetic level is a threat to those who are judged by society to be biologically inferior

Science provides knowledge of objects that threaten Earth and the means to deflect them