The acerbic optimist thinks anxious people (like me) need to move on from Covid and start planning for the next vicious pathogen. ...

Tiny wobbles in Earth’s gravitational field could help detect big tremors faster, but they’re hard to tease out from the planet’s seismic noise. ...

A quarter of a billion years ago, rising temperatures emptied the oceans of life. The planet now faces a similar threat, but the outcome is in human hands. ...

Young children across the world are inexplicably coming down with the liver illness, putting parents and doctors on alert. ...

Lab programs are closing. Home testing has shrunk the pool of publicly reported data. Will we still see the next surge before it arrives? ...

A startup just showed that its OncoK9 test accurately sounds the alarm for aggressive and advanced cancers. The catch? These often have no cure. ...

Mitochondrial bundles in the retina may improve how efficiently your eye captures light. ...

The open science movement pushes for making scientific knowledge quickly accessible to all. But a new paper warns that speed can come at a cost. ...

The autonomous aircraft have shuttled blood to rural, mountainous areas for years. A new analysis proves they’re faster than driving. ...

In an influential report that comes out once a decade, researchers propose a space mission to Uranus and a lander to Saturn’s moon, Enceladus. ...