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Satellite photography is revealing a shocking picture of the ongoing, systematic destruction of churches, mosques, antiquities, and museums throughout Syria and parts of Iraq and threats to heritage sites elsewhere […]

Physicists often describe their earliest experiences with the field as borderline spiritual, moments in which they realized that they—they!—can represent the world with math.

Bacteria and other pathogens are developing multi-drug resistance, and our last, best strategies are failing.

Microbes that act as superorganisms have evolved to be deeply dependent on each other instead of competing. And this cooperation lets them survive in extreme places. Working together, the microbes […]

The idea that seemingly short-lived viral infections could cause long-term symptoms is fairly new to scientists. They long believed that once your body cleared an infection, its symptoms should disappear, too. […]

In 2004, the British chemist Chris Dobson speculated that there might be a universal elixir out there that could combat not just alpha-synuclein for Parkinson’s but the amyloids caused by […]

Two even more exotic possibilities could explain the curious data physicists have gathered over the years.

When winter weather closed Harvard University one day in 2011, astronomer Avi Loeb used the snow day not to sled or start a new novel but to contemplate the future […]

LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, has been twenty-five years and more than half a billion dollars in the making. It involves 900 scientists and engineers, including many whose entire […]