The Sciences

Choosing Donald Trump for president is choosing fiction over fact—a fatal mistake

If people don’t understand how science works, they can’t properly understand how to think about new findings

New Nobel laureate in chemistry Jennifer Doudna talks about various applications of the gene-editing tool CRISPR.

Researchers have spent decades searching for the elusive particles. A final generation of detectors should leave them no place to hide

Over the past century, the existence of these invisible cosmic bodies has become unmistakable

She insisted on doing it anyway—and ultimately provided conclusive evidence for a supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Way

Scientists need to acknowledge that fact—and to act on it in these most dire of times

Blue whales off California’s coast sing at night—until it’s time to start migrating, and they switch to daytime song.

Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna win for technology that gives scientists unprecedented abilities to change the code of life

It’ll be messy, but we have the tools and the technology to ensure that everyone has an equal opportunity to cast a vote and have it counted

Charles Rice, who today shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus, talked about how rapidly research now occurs, compared with his early work.