Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.

Chemistry students are taught that some molecular shapes are so strained they simply cannot exist. For about 100 years, one ...

Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the ...

In a rebuff of the Trump administration’s proposal to drastically cut funding for federal science agencies, the Senate voted on Thursday to provide billions more to NOAA, NASA and the National Science ...

But it’s been decades since its heyday. The publication’s solutions-focused journalism has been drowned out by social media, ...

NASA is quietly ending financial support for independent planetary science advisory groups, according to a letter posted to the agency’s website on January 16. The affected groups have historically ...

AI accelerates analysis but lacks grounded, contextual insight; scientists must balance human creativity, ethics, oversight.

The National Institutes of Health failed to protect brain scans that an international group of fringe researchers used to ...

Democrats continue to be more likely than Republicans to say science has had a mostly positive effect on society.

Kaia Gerber and Alyssa Reeder launched their book club, Library Science, in 2024. See all of their 2026 selections, so far.