Sci-fi author Becky Chambers on designing believable ecosystems, balancing scientific accuracy with emotional impact and emphasizing empathy over spectacle

Protein-packed leaves might be the key to better meat alternatives

AI helped uncover a special object that can fill space without repeating patterns

Breaking down this year’s Nobel Prize–winning science, from switching brain cells on and off with light to catching cosmic neutrinos in Antarctic ice to building mirror-image molecules. Plus, a 194-year-old tortoise’s DNA might hold the key to a longer life.

Signs of hidden chambers in the walls of the famous boy king's tomb have raised hopes among researchers of finding hints of Nefertiti's burial place—Tutankhamun's stepmother and mother-in-law

The research offers yet another way the brewery industry might repurpose its myriad by-products

Why taking a break from exercise doesn't may not mean you need to start from scratch

The quake was a strike-slip event, and strong aftershocks could follow

The Category 3 storm intensified overnight—and is headed toward the U.S. Gulf Coast. Here’s what to know

The movie is based on the true story of how Facebook employee Frances Haugen blew the whistle on the company’s safety practices

Meta’s and OpenAI’s new agents can streamline your life. Artificial intelligence researchers helped me test how far to trust them

When compared with similar stars, where does sun fit in?

A new study shows promising results in lowering pain during IUD placements

In a new study, people who had worse fevers after a COVID shot tended to have similar gut characteristics

Scientists have called out several math and computer science results as the most significant in the company’s overwhelming new deluge of achievements

The “slop drop” contains a number of groundbreaking proofs, but how it was generated remains unclear and contentious

Detected by the MeerKAT array, this “fast radio burst” comes from three billion years after the big bang and could help map the universe’s otherwise-invisible intergalactic matter

It’s been a blistering year. A record-hot September doesn’t bode well for the rest of it

The first crewed lunar mission in more than a half-century brought back more than 800 gigabytes of data on colorful craters, flashing meteoroids, and much more

Isaias just became the latest-forming first hurricane of the Atlantic storm season since reliable records began, meteorologists say