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The Toll of a ‘Missing Scientists’ Conspiracy Theory on the Families Left Behind

ALEXANDER NAZARYAN

The claim that their loved ones’ deaths and disappearances are linked is almost certainly false — but the loss remains real.

2025 Wildfires Were the Costliest Ever, Researchers Say

REBECCA DZOMBAK

Severe, hard-to-control blazes in densely populated areas like Los Angeles drove the year’s record losses.

Trump's psychedelics executive order could accelerate new treatments—even for children

The Trump administration has fast-tracked research into psychedelics, and experts say it is likely a matter of time before the drugs are used to treat minors

New York Sues Trump Administration Over TotalEnergies Wind Farm

MAXINE JOSELOW

The lawsuit argues that it is illegal to pay the French energy giant TotalEnergies $795 million to cancel a planned wind farm off New York.

Microsoft’s upgraded Majorana quantum computing chip fizzles with physicists

Microsoft's announcement of a new quantum computing breakthrough with its Majorana 2 chip continues a trend of bold claims followed by scant evidence

Trump administration takes aim at crucial ocean monitoring network

The Ocean Observatories Initiative has been collecting data on physical, chemical, geological and biological conditions in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans for the past decade

How Gödel numbers turn mathematical laws against themselves

By encoding mathematical statements into numbers, mathematician Kurt Gödel used ordinary arithmetic to check whether a statement can be proved

In a first, scientists transplanted both a pig liver and kidneys into a person who was brain-dead

The transplanted pig organs functioned for 36 hours before showing signs of rejection

Trump’s new AI executive order drastically shifts the administration’s stance on the tech

This order asks artificial intelligence companies to give the U.S. government up to 30 days to assess frontier models before they are released

Sturgeon fish sex sounds like ‘thunder’

These sounds could be used to track the health of populations of the endangered Atlantic sturgeon

Democrats Pledge to Fight Trump’s Termination of Ocean Monitoring Observatories

LISA FRIEDMAN

The Trump administration is dismantling a $368 million deep-ocean observation system that monitors marine ecosystems and the effects of climate change.

U.S. science must innovate or die, National Academy of Sciences president says

The past year has been "filled with turmoil" for science, National Academy of Sciences president Marcia McNutt said during her State of the Science address

Ötzi the murdered Iceman’s microbiome is still active

More than 5,300 years after Ötzi's death, researchers found genetic material from his gut microbiome and identified yeasts that continue to exist despite the mummy being kept below freezing

Edison may not have been the first to record the human voice, new evidence suggests

Could a predecessor to the phonograph have appeared a century earlier?

The reason why elevators feel slow—and the surprising math behind everyday life

From slow elevators to perfectly split pizza, math quietly explains the quirks of everyday life