Since the magnitude 4.0 event, two smaller quakes—located deeper in Earth’s crust than the larger one—have already occurred: ...

A new federal initiative aims to accelerate scientific discovery by uniting artificial intelligence with large federal ...

The presence of electrical activity has implications for surface chemistry, future human exploration and habitability on the ...

Human brains go through five distinct phases of life, each defined by its own set of characteristics, according to a new ...

An enigmatic group of fossil organisms has finally been identified—and is changing the story of how plants took root on land ...

A damning new analysis, “ The Drain of Scientific Publishing, ” suggests that the science publishing system has become a ...

Taylor Mitchell Brown is a San Diego–based journalist covering anthropology and paleontology, with occasional forays into other disciplines. You can find him in Science, Science News, New Scientist, ...

So we decided to bring the concept into the 21st century: an e-mail time capsule. We built a tool for our website that ...

Nobody really knows how to speak to the future in a way that it will hear.

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In “The Quantum Bubble That Could Destroy the Universe,” Matthew von Hippel discusses vacuum decay, in which a change in the Higgs field would create an expanding quantum bubble that would transform ...

One of the things I love most about science is that sometimes it gets things wrong. In other disciplines, errors are fatal; chefs don’t benefit from poisoning their patrons. But scientists learn early ...