A look back at the biggest science stories of 2025, and a few you may have missed. Plus, over the past year, most of your ...

There was major science news in 2025. Plus, underreported developments in geoengineering and a triumph for furniture ...

Over the past year, most of your body has replaced itself cell by cell. What can we learn from other animals’ dramatic feats ...

Mushroom hunting is increasingly popular. A new wave of foraging groups by and for people of color could also help close the ...

Physicist Sean Carroll takes on black holes, Schrödinger’s cat, and other big physics concepts. Plus, we revisit some of our ...

Physicist Sean Carroll takes on black holes, Schrödinger’s cat, and other big physics concepts that had our audience wondering.

Ultramarathoners can run with what seems like superhuman stamina. But are their bodies much different than the rest of ours?

Humanoid robots are all over social media, doing everything from dancing to serving drinks. But are they really going to show up in our lives?

A newly identified amoeba can survive at the temperature of a medium-well steak. Plus, a distant lava planet shows signs of an atmosphere.

The following is an excerpt from The Secret Life of Flies by Erica McAlister. The hirsute form of the male chocolate midge, Forcipomyia sp., which is essential for cocoa pollination. The pin obscures ...

When the cattle on Wilbur Earl Tennant’s farm began to mysteriously fall ill and die, he suspected it wasn’t what the animals were eating—it was what they were drinking. Editor’s note: In 1999, Robert ...