Science

What happened when AI took over these researchers’ jobs?

A novel private plan in the late 1980s helped set the stage for planting trees as a means to sequester carbon emissions.

A team trekked for two weeks and collected the sounds of birds, frogs, a jaguar and whales in order to make the song

How to solve biology’s chicken-or-egg dilemma

Alignments of five or more planets are rare—there will be two more featuring five or more planets this year, but after that the next won’t happen until 2040.

When a magnetar within the Milky Way galaxy belched out a flare of colossally powerful radio waves in 2020, scientists finally had concrete evidence to pin down an origin for fast radio bursts. A mind-blowing new study has now narrowed down the mechanism.

Mathematicians attended Roger Apéry’s lecture at a French National Center for Scientific Research conference in June 1978 with a great deal of skepticism. The presentation was entitled “On the Irrationality of ζ(3),” which caused quite a stir among experts.

Did the holidays mess up your sleep patterns? Maybe you stayed up late ringing in the new year, or changed time zones while traveling. Science journalist Lynne Peeples says the body's circadian rhythms are sensitive to many different types of changes — but especially to sunlight.

The dreaded “winter wave” looks different this year. The twinkling of lit-up trees and festive displays in store windows have come to mean two things: The holidays are upon us, and so is COVID.

When a loved one dies, they leave behind their personal belongings, but what happens to all their life experiences? Could we ever retrieve memories from the brain of someone who's died?