Science

Twice a year, the setting sun perfectly aligns with Manhattan’s street grid, creating one of New York City’s most spectacular skywatching events.

Workers in chronic pain often choose to conceal it and continue working as though nothing were wrong, according to new research led by the University of Delaware. Drawing on a survey of 66 workers living with chronic pain, the authors…

Much of the UFO imagery that the Pentagon released last week was new, but we’ve known for decades about the odd things that the Apollo astronauts saw on and around the moon.

Public pension debt has far-reaching consequences, yet there appear to be limited options for addressing it. State and local governments often turn to legislation to reduce plan benefits. These reforms have been challenged in state and federal courts and providing…

The move from primary to secondary school is a major transition for many children, marked by new environments, new peers and increasing expectations. But while the jump signals growing up and greater independence, it also triggers a significant decline in…

Director James Cameron’s third chapter in the blockbuster sci-fi franchise lands June 24

Time might be even stranger than Einstein imagined. Physicists are now exploring the possibility that a single clock could exist in a quantum superposition, ticking both faster and slower at the same time — almost like Schrödinger’s cat being both…

The space industry’s plans to launch millions of satellites worry scientists as the rise in high-altitude air pollution threatens to alter Earth’s climate.

One of the last outsiders to make authorized visits to India’s only “uncontacted” tribe says it may be time to reconnect with the isolated people—in order to shield them from an encroaching world.

A random photo snapped in the Australian outback has led to the rediscovery of a plant thought extinct for nearly 60 years — proving that ordinary people with smartphones are quietly transforming science. After bird bander Aaron Bean uploaded pictures…