Chinese space station likely to land in Europe in a few weeks

Hackers find the processing power they need for mining for cryptocurrencies through ‘cryptojacking’

A cure for the flu? It could be as simple as sitting under a lamp.

New findings explore the universality of music, features that are recognizable across cultures

In DNA testing, ‘Yeti’ samples come up bears, bears, bears

Another way to look at the fossil record? By examining coal.

Most bees are solitary animals, and 4 other surprising bee facts

Not just gut bugs: Our microbiomes can even affect cancer treatments

Biographer Walter Isaacson, on Leonardo da Vinci’s art and science

Dr. Jane Goodall on her work with chimpanzees, and the new documentary ‘JANE’

We’re the biggest culprits behind wildfires. Now what?

How scientists are piecing together the story of ancient Americans

Journalist Maryn McKenna on the rise of ‘Big Chicken’ — and our current antibiotic crisis

Florida allows any resident to challenge textbooks — and it has some science supporters concerned

Will humans have the wisdom to manage artificial intelligence effectively?

A new study finds that after drug approvals are fast-tracked, required trials are slow to follow

The science of engineering touch

A new way to go local: Buy solar energy from your neighbors

For polar bears, melting ice in the Arctic means less room to roam for food

Climate change is coming to your coffee cup

Could an Amazon pharmacy be a prescription for industry change?

Fidget spinners have been banned in some classrooms, but kids will still fidget

Watch one of the world’s rarest sea lions make a comeback on New Zealand’s mainland

What solar scientists will be watching for in this summer’s total eclipse

See how Tuvan throat singers can sing multiple notes at once

Bacteria are thriving in the sky — and they influence the weather

Another way to grow crops — by laying down the plow

Mining nature for the next groundbreaking antibiotic

What could happen to net neutrality under the new FCC?

It’s been almost three years since Flint’s water crisis began. What have we learned?

Harvard researchers say they’ve created metallic hydrogen

Dads give birth and other interesting facts about seahorse pregnancies

Two new NASA missions look to asteroids for clues about our early solar system

In 2015 alone, 33,000 Americans died of an opioid-related overdose. What’s fueling the epidemic?

It has nothing to do with holiday spirit. Why your Christmas tree loses its needles.

These early female astronomers shattered the ‘glass universe’

The hidden costs of prescription drug coupons

The edible dormouse has evolved in such a way as to forestall aging

Scientists just used Hawaii as a ‘body double’ for Mars

The violent collision that formed our moon may have tilted Earth, too

Picturing the data: Scientists get new glimpses at the microscopic — and the cosmic

The Midcontinent Rift could have split North America apart a billion years ago. Why didn’t it?

Scientists develop a hornless Holstein using ‘gene editing.’ Are you ready to eat it?

One astronaut says his career seemed unlikely, ‘like growing up to be Spider-Man’

Watch the artistry and engineering that goes into making pop-up books

Cars in the cloud

Redwoods and fog: a love story

Do dogs understand what we’re saying to them?

How realistic are the hacks in ‘Mr. Robot’?

Medical marijuana just became more accessible to US scientists

This is the controversial plan underway to save the endangered whale-like vaquita

The physics behind the world’s fastest swim strokes

Where is modern cloning, 20 years after Dolly?

How math can help us understand terrorist networks

Here are all your burning questions about recycling, answered

An app that tells you what’s outside your plane window

Should we be protecting historic sites in space?

Chicken guns and other bizarre stories of the science of war

Flowers give off electrical signals to bees

Try these backyard science projects with your kids this summer