Science

Image specialist Andy Saunders on mining NASA’s archives for the ultimate record of America’s early space programs

A chance encounter with plastic waste on a tropical beach sparked a deep investigation into what those fragments mean for human health. The research reveals that bottled water isn’t as pure as it seems—each sip may contain invisible microplastics that…

Science is advancing faster than ever—and so are its impacts on our lives around the world.

To keep the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at peak performance, ESO engineers carefully recoat its enormous mirrors.

Two decades of stalled progress on closing the U.S. gender pay gap may have less to do with the office and more to do with the kitchen sink.

A new report by Monash University retail studies experts has revealed more relaxed attitudes toward retail theft and other deviant retail behaviors, posing a growing challenge for retailers nationwide.

Although most of their work is driven by numbers and equations, economists are inherently curious about the peculiarities of human behavior—especially when it comes to the forces that affect buying and selling. Caltech economist Marina Agranov shares this fascination. In…

The U.S. government shut down the same day Juno’s last mission extension expired, putting the status of the mission in limbo.

Researchers have carried out the most comprehensive geoarchaeological survey of Egypt’s Karnak Temple near Luxor—one of the ancient world’s largest temple complexes and a UNESCO World Heritage site welcoming millions of tourists every year.

Despite massive technological and industrial changes, American cities have stayed remarkably coherent in how their economies fit together. This hidden order governs how cities diversify, grow, and reinvent themselves without losing their economic identity.