The Sciences

After suffering severe damage from broken cables that cannot be readily repaired, the observatory’s enormous radio telescope is now slated for “controlled decommissioning”

Unlike almost all other animal species, it is male seahorses who become pregnant and birth young

Mathematicians model pandemic scenarios by plugging thorny ethical and logistical issues into calculations

Even with big health issues in the headlines, most of these challengers lost, though advocates hope the races gave science a higher policy profile

A new satellite image reveals the damage that shut down the facility, ending an era in astronomical observation

Paratek Pharmaceuticals made a life-saving drug and got it approved. So why is the company’s long-term survival still in question?

Chipmunklike animals that lived among the dinosaurs appear to have been social creatures, which suggests that sociality arose in mammals earlier than scientists thought. Christopher Intagliata reports.

Debate continues over a controversial report of phosphine in the planet’s atmosphere, as researchers reanalyze data and find a fainter signal

Here are some brief reports about science and technology from around the world, including one, from the dormant volcano Llullaillaco in Chile, about a mouse that is the highest-dwelling mammal ever documented.

SpaceX’s first 4-astronaut mission for the agency is a milestone in human spaceflight

But 500 Women Scientists, formed in the aftermath of Trump’s 2016 election, still has plenty of work to do

Radioactive elements produced by colliding neutron stars could make the difference between living and lifeless worlds