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One doctor’s fight to make IUD placement better

A new study shows promising results in lowering pain during IUD placements

Just how sunlike is the sun?

When compared with similar stars, where does sun fit in?

I gave Meta’s Muse and OpenAI’s Dots my passwords for a week

Meta's and OpenAI's new agents can streamline your life. Artificial intelligence researchers helped me test how far to trust them

Cancer Vaccines Are the N.I.H’s Next ‘Big Bet’

GINA KOLATA

New details have emerged about an initiative that starts in December to fast-track the vaccines, similar to the successful push for the Covid-19 vaccine.

Margaret Hamilton, Whose Software Guided the Apollo Missions, Has Died

TRIP GABRIEL

Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at M.I.T., was 90.

The Social Reckoning is a ‘surreal’ portrait of social media’s harms, scientist says

The movie is based on the true story of how Facebook employee Frances Haugen blew the whistle on the company's safety practices

Jonathan the Giant Tortoise Is 194 Years Old. He Just Had His Genome Sequenced.

MONIQUE BROUILLETTE

Scientists have sequenced his genome for the first time, hoping the world’s oldest land animal can offer clues into the genetics of longevity.

Major earthquake strikes Panama—damage and injuries are expected

The quake was a strike-slip event, and strong aftershocks could follow

How Hurricane Isaias got so dangerously strong so fast

The Category 3 storm intensified overnight—and is headed toward the U.S. Gulf Coast. Here's what to know

This beer-making waste may offer a new stream for cleaner water

The research offers yet another way the brewery industry might repurpose its myriad by-products

Why taking a break from exercise might not mean you need to start from scratch

Why taking a break from exercise doesn't may not mean you need to start from scratch

What Are the Remaining Millennium Prize Problems?

SIOBHAN ROBERTS

OpenAI’s trove of new math results doesn’t fully solve any of these highly prestigious open questions, but it seems to make progress on some.

The Underappreciated Benefits of Leaving Fallen Leaves Alone

ALAN BURDICK

To homeowners, fallen leaves look like work. To nature, they’re an investment, with tremendous value on the secondary market as invertebrate real estate.

Before Computer Science Became a Boys’ Club, Margaret Hamilton Wrote the Code

CAROLYN Y. JOHNSON AND KENNETH CHANG

The woman who helped put astronauts on the moon was a software engineer when the field was not prestigious or lucrative.

Mathematician Who Waited 50 Years for Proper Credit for Her Work Has Died

AMA SARPOMAA

At the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Mary Tsingou Menzel’s computer programming helped set the stage for chaos theory and other fields.