Earth Day is every day. This was brought home to me as I read “Reading Nature,” by John Seibert Farnsworth. (MSU Press, 2025) Its subtitle, “The Evolution of American Nature Writing,” gives the theme ...

Two studies fill in gaps about the cosmos’s ordinary matter. One maps it all, even the “missing matter.” The other details one of its hiding spots.

Materials science might seem very technical, but as a scientific discipline, it has led to many shifts in society over the ...

At HOLOLIFE Summit 2025 Europe, widely recognized as one of the most exclusive and forward-thinking longevity conferences in ...

Emerging ‘co-scientist’ systems use teams of chatbots to mimic the deliberations of a research group. Do they really help?