What this year’s Nobels can teach us about science and humanity. By Alan Burdick and Katrina Miller We are journalists on The Times’s Science desk. Technology observers have grown increasingly vocal ...

Clear out your shelves for a bumper new crop of books by authors including Naomi Klein, Rebecca Solnit and Xand Van Tulleken, ...

Killer viruses. Artificial intelligence. Extreme weather. Microplastics. Mental health. These are just a few of the pressing issues on which governments need science to inform their policies. But the ...

As nearly half of the world’s population headed to the polls this year, politics grabbed many of the headlines. But scientists and the natural world also managed to attract the public’s attention.

FROM age to age science has given mankind a new world, and the latest newness — which will not be the last — is perhaps strangest of all. Many of us who were eager students of science forty or fifty ...

Thanks to science, we’ve experienced dramatic shifts in the way we understand ourselves, Earth and the universe in the past 12 months. But the hours, weeks and years people commit to the meticulous ...

The world as we know it has been transformed by AI, but perhaps no field has been more profoundly affected than analytics and data science. While traditional data science practices have paved the way ...

Last month, we witnessed the viral sensation of several egregiously bad AI-generated figures published in a peer-reviewed article in Frontiers, a reputable scientific journal. Scientists on social ...

In a year of unpredictable news, science or otherwise, these are the stories that moved, inspired & fascinated Science Friday’s staff. As the world continued to change this year, we thought a lot ...

The science fiction of Joanna Russ. In her science fiction, the novelist offered not only an astringent critiques of the present but also bold visions of the future. “From now on, I will not trust ...

Darryl Jones does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

CHICAGO (WGN) — Christmas all around the world, and dozens of traditions can be seen right here in Chicago at the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry (MSI). Dubbed the “Christmas Around The World & ...