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Beverly Whipple Has Died. She Introduced the G-Spot to the Mainstream.

RANDI HUTTER EPSTEIN

Dr. Whipple studied the female erogenous zone and, with collaborators, wrote a best seller about women’s sexuality. She was 85.

2026 election results show widespread opposition to AI data centers

Across 10 states this Election Day, voters overwhelmingly backed restrictions on data center development or rejected measures that would have eased their construction

The Southwest Is Parched. Can the Recent Floodwaters Quench It?

SCOTT DANCE

A series of storms has added to reservoirs in the Colorado River basin, but the long-term water outlook remains bleak.

How George Clinton’s Mothership landed onstage in 1976

Fifty years after its spectacular debut, George Clinton's smoke-spewing spaceship remains a marvel of live-music technology and Afrofuturist imagination

Tiny Chihuahuas Hold a Big Surprise: A Sliver of Coyote DNA

FRANZ LIDZ

The breed is descended from indigenous canines, which may have been intentionally mixed with wild coyotes long before Europeans arrived in the Americas.

A NASA Telescope Has Crashed Back to Earth

KENNETH CHANG

The space agency estimated that there was a one-in-2,100 chance that debris from the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory could injure someone on the ground.

Hundreds of stunning ice age drawings discovered inside Spanish cave

The find includes 280 engravings, including 55 depictions of animals

These are the doctors and scientists elected in the 2026 midterms

Learn more about the scientific community coming into office in January

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is changing the color of the ocean

The ocean's blue and green hues near the infamous zone of debris have gotten brighter over the past 20 years, satellite data show

Ancient humans used cannabis in burial rituals 2,800 years ago

New findings from a Siberian tomb offer the earliest direct evidence for human marijuana use