Lace up those comfortable sneakers, and get out your bug spray and field guides, because we’re about to go birder-watching.

Plant biologist Joanne Chory spent her career trying to grow plants that could sequester CO2 in their roots. Her wild... more

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Recent outages at Newark airport highlighted the challenges facing air traffic controllers. What's the science underpinning air safety?

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Betül Kaçar started out as a biochemist. But then she found her calling: investigating some of the hardest questions in... more

How the “Final Reckoning” crew used science to bring an underwater stunt to life. Plus, the psychology behind thrill-seeking.

In a new memoir, a climate scientist reflects on his journey from a rural village in India to the cutting... more

Some car designers are turning from touchscreen controls back to physical buttons. Two researchers explain why that could be better.

Geneticists mapping nightshade genomes used CRISPR gene editing to grow bigger fruits without sacrificing flavor.