Editor in chief Nancy Shute discusses the challenges communities face after the January wildfires in Los Angeles.

Location, location Scientists launched a rocket from Svalbard, Norway, that measured Earth’s ambipolar electric field for the first time. The weak field may control the shape and [...]

As the Texas measles outbreak grows and HHS head RFK Jr. puts vaccines under new scrutiny, two experts answer questions about the public health tool.  [...]

By squirting chemicals onto a person’s tongue to taste, a new device aims to replicate food flavors for fuller virtual experiences.  [...]

The triple star system is sending comets, asteroids and meteors our way, and the number of interstellar objects entering the solar system will rise.  [...]

Biohybrid robots made with plant and fungal tissue are more sensitive to their surroundings.

Transforming the brain tissue to glass would have required an extremely hot and fast-moving ash cloud, lab experiments suggest.  [...]

Hundreds of surface swabs reveal the station lacks microbial diversity, an imbalance that has been linked to health issues in other settings.  [...]

Some scholars argue that efforts to equalize the time men and women spend on housework has stalled. An analysis reveals slow progress.  [...]

New brain-inspired hardware, architectures and algorithms could lead to more efficient, more capable forms of AI.

This oldest known evidence of people living in tropical forests supports an idea that human evolution occurred across Africa.  [...]

Some companies claim that taking beneficial bacteria can reduce the desire for sugar. But the evidence comes from mice, not people.  [...]

Carl Zimmer’s Air-Borne recounts centuries of aerobiology’s greatest moments and mistakes.

Mars may once have held enough water to fill oceans and form coastlines. The planet’s red dust contains water and likely formed in cold conditions.  [...]

Archaeologists uncovered a fossilized skull of an ancient sharp-toothed predator that likely hunted early elephants and primates.  [...]

A survey of museum specimens reveals that more than a dozen species of the birds sport biofluorescence in feathers, skin or even inside their throats.  [...]

Light pollution disorients young puffins. The Puffling Patrol helps them find their way to the sea.

In the third episode of The Deep End, Jon shares how DBS surgery went and how he and other volunteers felt in the days and weeks afterward.  [...]

Thousands of probationary federal employees received termination notices. Many were doing crucial work at science-related agencies.  [...]

A political scientist explains how a confluence of personality traits and perceived status loss can encourage some people to generate chaos as a solution to their woes.  [...]