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Helion Energy is building a fusion power plant. Can its technology deliver?

This company says its pulsed plasma machine will deliver electricity to the grid by 2029. Some physicists warn that its promises are outrunning what the technology has proved

The Riemann hypothesis is a million-dollar math problem hardly anyone is trying to solve

The intimidating legacy of the scariest problem in mathematics

Quantum computing is reaching its make-or-break moment

Will computers based on quantum physics really change the world?

NASA dreams of a nuclear power plant on the moon. Here’s why

To build its moon base, NASA needs a lot of power

Which problems will quantum computers solve—and when?

Quantum computing could lead to revolutions in cryptography, materials design and telecommunications. But fulfilling those promises could be many years away

A field guide to quantum computer qubits

Here are six ways to build a quantum computer

New high‑resolution map transforms what we know about Roman roads and the Roman Empire

A massive digitization project has nearly doubled the known extent of the first continent-scale road network

She Was Finding Sources of Dangerous Water and Soil Pollution

SACHI KITAJIMA MULKEY

Melanie Malone led a research project to identify and study contamination sites in Washington State. Then the E.P.A. canceled her grant.

Math puzzle: Fix the matchstick equation

Fix the matchstick equation in this math puzzle

Neanderthal Dentistry, and the Scientist Glad Not to Have Experienced It

FRANZ LIDZ

The prehistoric hominins “apparently were very adept at what we would consider invasive medicine,” said the anthropologist John Olsen.

New NASA Hubble image captures a rare, turbulent galaxy

The new image shows the galaxy NGC 1266, a middle-aged object with a clutch of young stars that likely collided with another, smaller galaxy 500 million years ago

Scientists race to develop Ebola drugs as outbreak surges

Clinical trials for treatments against Ebola Bundibugyo virus are 'in a strong position' to be launched quickly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda

Military Bases Are Rife With ‘Forever Chemicals.’ New Mexico Wants Them Cleaned Up.

ALEXANDER NAZARYAN AND NINA RIGGIO

The state is leading the country’s reckoning with PFAS. The outcome of its suit against the federal government will affect how courts treat more than 15,000 other claims nationwide.

A 16th-Century Sketch of Anne Boleyn More Likely Depicted Her Mother, an A.I. Analysis Finds

KATHERINE KORNEI

Using facial-recognition technology, scholars have concluded that a 500-year-old drawing labeled “Anna Bollein Queen” more likely showed her mother, Elizabeth Howard.

‘Sensational’ proof topples decades-old geometry problem

The sudden resolution of a well-known conjecture highlights the growing adoption of AI as an assistant in high-level mathematics