What We're Reading

In a multi-‘cat’ experiment, the textbook view of quantum theory, called the Copenhagen interpretation, seems to lead to contradictory pictures of reality, physicists claim.

Workshops that fuse traditional learning with Silicon Valley–inspired “hack sessions” are giving scientists a new venue to build community and sharpen their skills.

The governing body of the American Association for the Advancement of Science voted to enact a policy under which an elected AAAS Fellow’s lifetime honor can be revoked for scientific misconduct or serious breaches of professional ethics. The new policy will go into effect on October 15, 2018

Experimental spacecraft will fling a net and shoot a spear at targets in space.

The National Science Foundation has made six 5-year awards to tear down disciplinary, geographic, and cultural barriers that hinder efforts to promote broader participation in STEM.

Super-sensitive devices capture bioluminescent displays and other behaviors long shrouded in darkness.

The tool, called Google Dataset Search, locates files and databases on the basis of how their owners have classified them. It does not read the content of the files themselves.

Computer vision researchers have uncovered a world of visual signals hiding in our midst.

“Why are big agriculture putting chemicals into our food to make people transgender?” NIH director Francis Collins did not take the bait.

Science writer Philip Ball revisits a book that crystallized key concepts in modern molecular biology.