The Sciences

Human children: please take note of the behavior of prebirth zebra finches

The company’s ongoing launches of thousands of satellites for global high-speed Internet service may clash with preexisting environmental regulations

A visit to my hometown to see the legendary Brood X cicadas with my wife and one-year-old daughter changed my conception of time

A trove of new detections suggests that the bursts could be the result of at least two separate astrophysical phenomena

Some “gain of function” studies explore how a dangerous pathogen might cross species barriers to start an outbreak. They are not without controversy

There’s a detectable difference between a planet shining with reflected light and a planet glowing with its own artificial illumination

How a dispute between a religious believer and a confirmed atheist led to a major mathematical breakthrough

Scientists found that elephants often sniff pathways—and seem especially attuned to urine.

The spacecraft captured the first close-up views of the solar system’s largest moon in more than 20 years

The multibillionaire—along with his brother and at least one other passenger—could reach suborbital heights as soon as July 20

As Oscar Wilde famously observed: Be yourself; everyone else is already taken

Mysterious creatures of the deep shine in images by marine biologist Alexander Semenov