Science

New Mexico’s Plains of San Agustin are otherworldly: Silence, sand and sharp plants reign on the valley floor. Knobbly volcanic…

New Contacts Let You See Infrared Light—Even with Your Eyes Closed Straight out of science fiction, these contact lenses convert…

People are generally bad at assessing probabilities. That’s why we have irrational fears and why we overestimate our odds of…

Is Your Tech Listening? Apple Settles Claim for Siri Eavesdropping Apple is paying $95 million over claims that Siri secretly…

In World First, Baby Receives Personalized CRISPR Gene-Editing Treatment A CRISPR treatment seems to have been effective for a baby’s…

Lawmakers Push to Legalize Emissions-Heavy ‘Supersonic’ Planes A bill to repeal the ban on supersonic flights over the U.S. could…

Just more than 100 years ago, on March 18, 1925, a tornado slashed across the U.S. Midwest with no warning…

Physicists Turn Lead into Gold—For a Fraction of a Second Scientists at Europe’s famous particle collider briefly created gold ions…

Political Attacks on Libraries Endanger Small-Town Democracy Defending our public libraries is part of a larger struggle for the integrity…

Do ‘Alternative’ Measles Treatments Work? As the measles outbreak in the U.S. gets bigger, HHS’s secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.,…