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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

Have astronomers spotted Planet Nine?

Archived observations appear to show a moving object in the far-distant outer solar system, but its reality is unclear

Kevin Roose says the race to build superintelligence is accelerating

What happens when a technology becomes more powerful than its creators can fully understand?

This brain change can make foxes act like pet dogs

Using data from a 1950s Russian experiment, researchers are getting "to the heart of brain programming" in foxes