Science • Technology

It seems anywhere scientists look for plastic, they find it: from the ice in Antarctica, to the first bowel movement...

Cast your mind forward. It’s Nov. 8, 2028, the day after another presidential election. This one went smoothly — no...

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory laid off 100 contractors last week and will scale back part of the first-ever effort to...

An elephant at the Los Angeles Zoo died this week, the second in about a year and just days before...

If you’re a fan of techno-hype, 2023 was the year for you. Believers felt themselves validated by seeing excitement and...

The pandemic is far from over, as evidenced by the rapid rise to global dominance of the JN.1 variant of...

Under a microscope, this drug-resistant superbug looks as benign as a handful of pebbles. Yet carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii, or CRAB,...

The first SpaceX launch of 2024, which took place Tuesday night, included something that none of the company’s prior launches...

If 2023 was the year that AI finally broke into the mainstream, 2024 could be the year it gets fully...

When Netflix executives decided to do a live-action adaptation of the popular manga “Yu Yu Hakusho,” they knew it would...