Astronomy

This beer-making by-product could offer a sustainable way to isolate metals for recycling electronic waste

The way we’re “wired” to learn may divide us

Moths and other insects aren’t drawn to nighttime illumination for the reasons we think they are

Research on the developing brain points to new ways to help young people with anxiety disorders

Writers, artists, photographers and researchers share the stories behind the stories

Though sometimes overstated, the benefits of cold-water swimming are slowly becoming clearer

Anthropogenic evolution is affecting species across the planet

Science in meter and verse

After decades of debate, grizzlies will be reintroduced to the North Cascades

Rather than relying on bacteria, whiteflies cut out the middleman and acquired their own genes to process nitrogen

Supportive care is often started late in an illness, but that may not be the best way

Rats as you’ve never seen them; the journey of restoring a garden; stories from a “post-Impact” future

Walking barefoot on hot stones; what makes bluebirds blue

With few states tracking who is being homeschooled and what they are learning, an untold number of U.S. children are at risk of a poor education or even abuse

Explore the new science of weird chemistry, anthropogenic evolution and near-death experiences

Forestry is deadly. Could automating some logging tasks help?

Scientists are putting together a catalog of communications from belugas’ forehead “melon”

Scientists think they’ve cracked the long-standing mystery of attraction among particles with a similar charge

Adam Higginbotham's new book "Challenger: A True Story of Heroism & Disaster on the Edge of Space" explores the fateful internal NASA decisions that partly led to Challenger's sudden destruction upon liftoff.

Underwater data centres being installed off the coasts of China, the US and Europe could be disrupted by sounds from military-grade sonar on ships and submarines, or even whales