If you’ve ever nuked a Hot Pocket or used your microwave to warm up some leftovers, you have a comedy of errors to thank for the convenience. The invention of the all-too-common microwave came down to ...

A team of 16 scientists and support staffers spent four summers drilling through Antarctic ice until they finally reached bedrock. To accomplish their goal, they endured average temperatures of -25.6 ...

The brain's waste-removal process is "like turning on the dishwasher," a neurologist says, but common sleep medications may ...

The Bird's Foot Delta, a crucial ecological and economic hub, faces an uncertain future amid rising seas and dwindling sediment.

"Light pollution will irreparably impact the capabilities for astronomical observation," the ESO's Xavier Barcons said.

For the first time, atoms of the metal indium have been chilled to temperatures a few millionths of a degree above absolute ...

The world’s first fully 3D-printed microscope can be made in a few hours and for a fraction of the cost of traditional ones.

Earthquakes that occurred near an oil extraction site in Surrey, UK, in 2018 and 2019 had been put down to coincidence, but a ...

The United Nations has 17 sustainable development goals that all member states have signed up to in an effort to balance ...

Jeff Bezos’s space company is about to launch New Glenn, a reusable rocket intended to rival SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, for the ...

This article appears in the February 2025 print edition with the headline “The New Rasputins.” ...

The Excuse spider, named after a track from Jay Chou's 2004 album, shares its title with China's best-selling album this ...