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The 2026 midterms are today—here’s what scientists say is at stake

The second Trump administration has dismantled, disrupted or weakened many of the country's scientific bodies

Self-flying cargo planes are coming. Can they be safe with no one aboard?

A start-up valued at more than $1 billion wants to fly cargo planes with no one in the cockpit. First it needs to prove to regulators that they're safe without a human aboard

Do cats fart? An investigation into the mysteries of feline flatulence

Dogs are constantly passing gas. So why don't cats seem to?

Neanderthals Used Wood for Tools, Housing — and Murder?

FRANZ LIDZ

In one case, 75,000-year-old bones reveal what may be the earliest identifiable victim of death by wooden spear.

Why Southwestern Floods Won’t Solve A Water Crisis

SCOTT DANCE

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

New York’s first measles death in 30 years is an omen of worse to come

A child died after contracting the disease amid the largest national measles outbreak in more than three decades

Incan children were given hallucinogens before they were sacrificed to the gods

New toxicology tests of Incan mummies found the kids were given not just cocaine, but alcohol and chemicals found in ayahuasca before the ceremony

House Republicans Accuse Top Psychology Group of Antisemitism

CHRISTINA CARON AND AZEEN GHORAYSHI

A monthslong G.O.P. effort culminated in a scathing report about emails and other exchanges within the American Psychological Association.

How hackers are turning grocery store freezers into heaters

By hijacking built-in defrost controls, attackers have spoiled millions of euros' worth of food across Europe. U.S. military bases may have been hit, too

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.