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The most impractical calculator in the world only has two buttons

Modern calculators have many buttons, including ones for sine, square root, pi and exponents. But it's possible just two could suffice

The Election Day Edition

BRAD PLUMER

In the 2022 midterms, Democrats made global warming an issue. Things have changed.

A NASA Telescope Is Predicted to Crash Back to Earth Within Hours

KENNETH CHANG

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

Do Animals Grieve?

EMILY ANTHES

The feeling of existential loss was long thought to be uniquely human. But studies of coyotes, cockatoos and other creatures are prompting some scientists to reconsider.

Prosecutors Seek to Drop Charges Against Russian Scientist Accused of Smuggling Frog Embryos

CAROLYN Y. JOHNSON

Kseniia Petrova, a researcher at Harvard, has argued that she was vindictively prosecuted after her arrest in 2025.

How the tiny soybean took over the American diet

 How soybeans became the hidden ingredient powering the U.S.

Investigators Looking for Cause of Learjet Crash Say Ice Was ‘Certainly a Factor’

ALEXANDER NAZARYAN

Ice, experts said, can change the shape of a plane’s wing, disrupting its aerodynamics.

How does mental fatigue begin in the brain?

New findings could help explain why cognitive exhaustion feels so crummy

The Super El Niño is already soaking the U.S. Expect more flooding to come

This week Florida and the Four Corners region have been hammered by major rain events, swamping roads and washing away homes

The polar vortex is about to go haywire

"Everybody's hair is on fire in the climate or meteorologist community"

NASA’s Swift telescope plunges back to Earth

The observatory had spent decades studying powerful cosmic explosions and was the target of an unsuccessful rescue mission earlier this year

Science advocates react to Democrats’ historic midterm rout: ‘It’s a new day in Washington’s

Researchers and advocates say they hope the "blue wave" could signal more accountability after two years of attacks on science

Could SpaceX’s retirement of Falcon 9 spark a launch crisis?

What happens when the most successful rocket in history stops flying? The world is about to find out

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is wobbly—scientists have a fix that could reveal new alien worlds

By modeling the James Webb Space Telescope's tiny movements, a new technique can reveal up to 15 times fainter alien worlds

What a historic ‘blue wave’ midterm means for climate action

Democrats swept Congress and won in red states. Here are the races that matter most for decarbonization, disasters and data centers