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U.S. science must innovate or die, National Academy of Sciences president says

The past year has been "filled with turmoil" for science, National Academy of Sciences president Marcia McNutt said during her State of the Science address

Ötzi the murdered Iceman’s microbiome is still active

More than 5,300 years after Ötzi's death, researchers found genetic material from his gut microbiome and identified yeasts that continue to exist despite the mummy being kept below freezing

Edison may not have been the first to record the human voice, new evidence suggests

Could a predecessor to the phonograph have appeared a century earlier?

The reason why elevators feel slow—and the surprising math behind everyday life

From slow elevators to perfectly split pizza, math quietly explains the quirks of everyday life

Trump Administration to Dismantle the Ocean Observatories Initiative

ERIC NIILER

The $368 million network of instruments collecting data in both the Atlantic and Pacific has been critical to climate and ocean research.

Unusual Greenpeace Lawsuit May Proceed, Dutch Court Says

KAREN ZRAICK

Greenpeace International is arguing under Dutch law that an American pipeline company, Energy Transfer, sought to silence it with a costly lawsuit in North Dakota.

As Ebola Spreads, Scientists Race to Find Vaccines and Treatments

CARL ZIMMER

The Bundibugyo virus, a little known type, previously had caused just two small outbreaks. Now it’s at the center of a rapidly widening epidemic in Africa.

Scientists just built a powerful AI computer worm that learns as it spreads

This prototype could help the world prepare for AI malware threats, according to the researchers who made it

NASA’s Mars mission MAVEN is lost forever

MAVEN was the first successful mission designed to study the atmosphere of Mars. It also became a vital node of NASA's communications network at the Red Planet

Landmark pancreatic cancer treatment paves way for targeting other tricky tumors

Unprecedented results against a stubbornly hard-to-treat cancer are boosting optimism that other challenging tumors will be next

E.U. Steps Up Ocean Monitoring as Trump Administration Backs Away

CHICO HARLAN

Days after the U.S. said it would kill a network of ocean monitors, European officials pledged to invest more in their version, calling it a “necessity.”

NASA Says Goodbye to its Longtime Mars MAVEN Mission

KATRINA MILLER

The space agency announced that the MAVEN spacecraft, which has circled Mars for more than a decade, is being decommissioned.

Arizona, Nevada Agree to Trade for Desalinated Pacific Ocean Water

SCOTT DANCE

A decade-old treatment plant in San Diego County, Calif., could leave more water in the Colorado River for states facing severe shortages.

As A.I. Makes Strides in Mathematics, Mathematicians Urge Caution

SIOBHAN ROBERTS

A week after OpenAI made headlines with an A.I.-generated proof, a new “declaration” by 16 experts raises concerns that the technology threatens math as a discipline.

White House reclassifies federal epidemiologists and other scientists from civil servants to “at-will” hires

The long-anticipated "Schedule F" order strips job protections meant to safeguard federal employees from political interference