What We're Reading

James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo developing ways to unleash the immune system more effectively against cancers.

A new megascience endeavor will catalog and image each of the 200 or more types of cells from the 80 known organs and identify the genes that are active in these cells.

Twin probes from Hayabusa2 mission have sent back their first pictures from Ryugu’s surface.

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.