The Sciences

Here’s what the Biden-Harris administration can do to repair the damage Trump has done

The foreign service could use people with the problem-solving skills typical of STEM Ph.D.s

How many scientific breakthroughs have been lost because they came from outside the mainstream?

Scientists have created an atlas of cardiac cells in six regions that could help chart what goes awry in heart disease

Princeton’s Sam Wang had to eat his words (and a cricket) in 2016. He talks about the impacts of the pandemic and QAnon on public-opinion tallies in 2020

COVID might be fought efficiently with fewer shutdowns by restricting activities only in a particular area with a population up to 200,000 when its case rate rises above a chosen threshold.  

The Artemis Accords—NASA guidelines supposedly designed to regulate global cooperation on the moon—may serve to circumvent preexisting international treaties

Earthly matters got you stressed? Here is an opportunity to elevate your mind above the terrestrial din with three cosmic questions

Aerial photography highlights the effect humankind is having on the earth

Chang’e-5 has just one lunar day to collect material from a previously unexplored region of the moon’s near side

They’re not exempt from participation in the food web

Horseflies misjudge landings on zebra patterns, compared with solid gray or black surfaces, which provides evidence for why evolution came up with the black-and-white pattern.