What We're Reading

Armored ‘footballs‘ can be coaxed into cylinder and dumbbell shapes.

As in previous years, Congress will likely reject the proposed cuts to the president's budget proposal, which amounts to a vision statement more than an actual funding plan.

Alcohol content, the pour and the shape of the glass are factors in wine tears, but shock waves may explain why they don't always occur, finds Simons investigator Andrea Bertozzi of UCLA.

Theoretical modeling by researchers from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the Flatiron Institute shows that the forces generated by freely swimming microorganisms will sweep them all up in predictable ways.

Alston’s singing mice “converse,” scientists report, a finding that may shed light on human language. It is also the focus of Arkarup Banerjee of the Simons Society of Fellows.

Axions? Phantom energy? Astrophysicists scramble to patch a hole in the universe, rewriting cosmic history in the process.

NASA, the National Science Foundation and the Environmental Protection Agency are among the agencies whose funding would increase.

Analysis of more than 11.5 million medical research papers from 1980 to 2016 found a majority overlooked the role of sex differences in genetics, physiology and the way the body responds to drugs.

Researchers have been left without access to new papers as libraries and the major publisher fail to agree on subscription deals.

Gene-edited babies, head transplants and other proposals suggest that rich-world scientists go to other countries to conduct questionable experiments.