Nine runners-up plus the top science achievement of the year
Why some rope knots hold better than others.
The Trump administration has diminished the role of science in federal policymaking while halting or disrupting research projects nationwide. The effects, experts say, could reverberate for years.
At the center of a distant galaxy there's a black hole with the mass of several billion suns. And now, for the first time, we can see it.
The climate crisis has long been escalating. We’ve reached a new level of existential threat. Now, some elements of the right wing are using the crisis to advance eco-fascism—an ideology that sees climate change migrants as a threat to “our America.
An updated vision of the steps that 143 countries around the world can take to attain 100% clean, renewable energy by the year 2050
Physics is what powers the beautiful circus machine, even if the audience is completely oblivious.
Even models in the 1970s accurately predicted the relationship between greenhouse gas emissions and temperature rise
The world’s healthiest societies are those with the lowest inequality—societies where leftwing forces are strong.
Healthy people can adopt Time Restricted Eating (TRE), independent of diet and exercise, to reduce their risk for metabolic diseases. A new study suggests it is also an effective treatment for people with obesity or diabetes.
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