Remembering E.O. Wilson, Richard C. Lewontin, Myriam Sarachik, Isamu Akasaki, Chuck Geschke, Thomas Lovejoy, Rosalind Cartwright and many others who died in 2021. Thomas Lovejoy, 80 Amazon rescuer and ...

A volcano revealed, a lung x-rayed, a rocket launched: National Geographic editors selected these 23 fascinating images of science and technology in action. Pitchfork in hand, Armando Salazar clambers ...

Editor’s note (December 26th 2021): On December 25th the telescope was successfully launched, after several delays. IT IS A majestic beast. Its primary mirror, a tessellation of golden hexagons, ...

GOVERNMENTS and companies around the world are racing to build a useful quantum computer, and the stakes are as high as the R&D budgets. Such a machine could crack encryption wide open, boost the ...

“SORRY FOR the early call”, the transmission from ground control to the International Space Station (ISS) in the morning of November 15th began, “but we were recently informed of a satellite break-up ...