Researchers explore the fascinating biomechanics and neuroscience of bats

Researchers still struggle to get funding to study gun violence

Turns out, dinosaurs probably had feathers. This artist is using science to draw more accurate pictures.

New book sheds light on overlooked women pioneers who paved the way for today’s internet

New book explains the secrets behind famous skyscrapers, other structures

AI-based fake videos pose the latest threat to what we perceive as reality — and possibly our democracy

Despite dozens of recent flu deaths among US children, vaccination skeptics remain — and their numbers have grown

An FCC vote to dismantle net neutrality is expected this week. Here’s what that means.

Why did passenger pigeons go extinct?

A scientist who finds pharmaceutical promise in the venom of cone snails

Two arachnid experts share their four favorite spider facts

Neanderthals went extinct, but many of us still carry around fragments of their DNA

In praise of boredom: Researchers dish on the brain benefits of idle time

How glow worms get their glow on

Hunting sea monsters in Kansas is easier than you might think

The black-footed ferret is making a comeback in the Great Plains

Bringing science and engineering stories to life for students

‘Knocking on eternity’s door’ — NASA’s Voyager mission turns 40

What the aye-aye and the woodpecker can tell us about how evolution works

’13 Reasons Why’ suicide controversy continues

Why are humans so curious?

What happened to the moon’s magnetic field?

What’s your game plan for the Great American Eclipse?

Alan Alda’s secret to better communication? Have a little more empathy.

Can we pay people to save the rainforests?

NASA is designing a spacecraft that could nudge asteroids out of Earth’s way

The kilogram is getting a new look

Tired of sweating over the stove? Try cooking with science this summer.

Finding an Earthly home for the Thirty Meter Telescope

For fish, the good and bad of warming ocean waters

How actress Hedy Lamarr became the ‘mother of Wi-Fi’

Just how much science is in forensic science?

We’ve been nuking our food for 50 years now — but how do microwaves even work?

Marijuana could give a cognitive boost to older brains

Meet a forensic ornithologist, who identifies what’s left after avians and airplanes collide

From oral history, a 14,000-year-old archaeological discovery

Could there be life on Saturn’s moon, Enceladus? New research raises the possibility.

Studying splashes to learn more about how disease spreads

This pressurized, skirt-like machine helps keep astronauts fit

The mathematician who’s using geometry to fight gerrymandering

The Gulf shows some small signs of recovery, seven years after Deepwater Horizon

Climate change might leave a bad taste in your mouth. Literally.

Human moderators do the dirty work of keeping disturbing content off the internet

The very real science behind ‘The Expanse’

In the future, people might really wear their emotions on their sleeves

Some of the oxygen on the moon used to be on planet Earth

Science lovers around the world will march on April 22. Here’s why.

Decades before they choose a career, girls think being ‘really, really smart’ is for boys

Uber is making ride-booking data publicly available. Is this a privacy Pandora’s box?

Scientists want to use a genetically modified malaria parasite as a vaccine against the disease

The weight of gender bias on women’s scientific careers

Modern-day tribes still carry traces of colonial devastation in their DNA

A paralyzed monkey can walk again, thanks to a wireless ‘brain-computer’ interface

There’s still no birth control pill for men, despite promising candidates. Where’s the research headed?

These black women were the mathematicians behind American spaceflight

Screwworm is back — and it’s bad news for Florida’s endangered deer

Scientists try to save this frog species from being wiped out by fungus

‘Silicon cowboys’: The underdog story of personal computing

As the seaweed industry booms, how can we farm seaweed more sustainably?

If other animals can regenerate their limbs, why can’t humans?