What We're Reading

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.

Physicists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider have spotted the Higgs decaying into a particle called a bottom quark and its antimatter counterpart, an antibottom quark.

In a remarkable twist in the story line of early human evolution, scientists have announced the discovery of “Denisova 11” — a female who was at least 13 years old, lived more than 50,000 years ago and was a child of two different and now-extinct early human types.

A paper by researchers in the Simons Collaboration on Ocean Processes and Ecology characterizes a symbiotic relationship between diatoms and bacteria.