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Is there a ‘window of opportunity’ to prevent Alzheimer’s in women?

Wall of floodwater sweeps away villages in Nepal, with hundreds missing

More Americans believe the government is withholding information about UFOs

Jill Lepore on why Silicon Valley gets science fiction wrong

U.S. approves breakthrough pancreatic cancer drug, heralding a new era for an intractable disease

Electric rain can eat through metal

Mars may be two-faced to its core

Meta to pay $18 billion and make sweeping app changes to settle social media harms lawsuit

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope could reveal dark energy’s deepest secrets

Controversial Alzheimer’s surgery is said to reverse symptoms. Here’s what scientists say

The overlooked role of sperm DNA damage in recurrent miscarriage

Elon Musk’s SpaceX to expand beyond Texas Starbase with new Louisiana spaceport dedicated to Starship

These math tricks can make rare Pokémon appear out of nowhere

Trump administration quietly signals possible changes coming to childhood vaccine schedule

The U.S. just recorded its first two deaths from measles for 2026

How to see the 2026 ‘blood moon’ eclipse this week

Scientists just unleashed an army of 130,000 baby octopuses to fight off a blue crab invasion

In a 2023 interview, Trump’s new FDA pick laid out a vision for ‘conservative-based’ science

The humanoid robot ‘Olympics’ is as ridiculous as it is impressive

‘Extreme’ wildfire sweeps Nevada as U.S. tallies almost 51,000 wildfires so far this year

Earth’s oceans just hit their hottest temperature ever recorded

China delays ambitious Chang’e 7 moon mission until 2027

Sorry, Pluto’s still not a planet

See states’ kindergarten vaccination rates—from highest to lowest

Climate change opens Arctic shipping routes as roadless forest protections face rollback

How “thunderquakes” could help reveal hidden structures inside the Earth

60 years ago NASA took the first ever photo of Earth from the moon—and began a legacy

Why trauma changes how our memory engages with our conscious experience

Is lettuce safe to eat yet? New data suggest cyclosporiasis cases are slowing

Why tornadoes touched down near New York City

Why this El Niño will be the largest in living memory

What you need to know about West Nile virus

‘Earth-like’ exoplanets may exist—but we don’t know of any yet

What happened when people with anorexia tried magic mushrooms

The national debt is $40 trillion. What does that mean mathematically?

Physicists pinpoint the perfect crystal site for an ultra-accurate nuclear clock

China’s solar power rollout is harming birds, a new analysis finds

Europe’s summer of wildfires is just a taste of what’s to come

Orbital data centers could transform our night sky forever

Life’s ‘last universal common ancestor’ may predate life itself

China’s Chang’e 7 moonshot will seek water ice at the lunar south pole

Should you be taking testosterone?

NASA calls off rescue mission for its falling Swift space telescope

Moderna and Merck announce ‘landmark’ trial showing mRNA therapy significantly cuts odds of recurrent skin cancer

Some microbes could survive on the moon—that’s a big problem for NASA

The Milky Way’s fastest star could expose our black hole’s spin

China successfully lands its Zhuque-3 rocket, rivaling Blue Origin and SpaceX

‘Mini brains’ kept alive for years appear to age like real brains

Supercentenarians have a cellular superpower

How psilocybin alters consciousness to create a sense of ‘oneness’