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A Century Ago, a High School Teacher From a Small Tennessee Town Ignited a National Debate Over Human Evolution
The Scopes “monkey trial” garnered international attention, and the battle that was fought continues in some form in other states today
Astronomers Suspect Colliding Supermassive Black Holes Left the Universe Awash in Gravitational Waves
Radio telescopes tracking signals from spinning, ultra-dense stars point to ripples in the fabric of space
The Ten Best Science Books of 2024
From a deep dive on a fatal space shuttle disaster to a study of a dozen iconic trees, these are our favorite titles this year
After Decades of Searching, Are Physicists Closing In on Dark Matter?
With no conclusive laboratory results, researchers are turning to other methods to find the elusive substance
This Revolutionary New Observatory Will Locate Threatening Asteroids and Millions of Galaxies
Beginning next year, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will use the world’s largest digital camera to give us a whole new view of the universe
How Ancient Civilizations Reacted to Eclipses
Communities may have thought the celestial events were messages from the gods, a reason to abandon a settlement or a cue to end a war
This Planned NASA Telescope May Help Us Identify Worlds Like Our Own
The innovative Habitable Worlds Observatory will offer ways to detect signs of life on other planets
The Ten Best Science Books of 2023
From stories on the depths of the ocean to the stars in the sky, these are the works that moved us the most this year
Seven Amazing Accomplishments the James Webb Telescope Achieved in Its First Year
The observatory has yielded jaw-dropping shots—and surprising facts—about our universe
Everything You Need to Know About the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse
A veteran eclipse chaser explains how to get ready for one of the planet’s biggest celestial events
What Does the Universe Sound Like?
The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and other researchers have melded astronomy and music to offer a new oeuvre
The Ten Best Science Books of 2022
From a detective story on the origins of Covid-19 to a narrative that imagines a fateful day for dinosaurs, these works affected us the most this year
When Will the Next Supernova in Our Galaxy Occur?
Scientists have new tools at their disposal to detect and study the dramatic explosion of a star
The Very Real Effort to Track Killer Asteroids and Comets
In “Don’t Look Up,” researchers warn authorities about a comet hurtling towards Earth. Such a scenario isn’t just science fiction
The Ten Best Science Books of 2021
From captivating memoirs by researchers to illuminating narratives by veteran science journalists, these works affected us the most this year
The Ambitious Idea to Study the Evolution of a Comet
Researchers want to send a spacecraft near Jupiter to join up with a chunk of rock and ice as it’s flung toward the sun
New Project Aims to Create Most Detailed 3-D Map of the Universe
An instrument named “DESI” will chart up to 40 million galaxies, ten times more than any previous survey
Could Weirdly Straight Bolts of Lightning Be a Sign of Dark Matter?
A group of scientists say the phenomenon could indicate dark matter speeding through our world at more than 300 miles a second
One Hundred Years Ago, Einstein Was Given a Hero’s Welcome by America’s Jews
The German physicist toured the nation as a fundraiser for Zionist causes, even though he was personally torn on the topic of a Jewish nation
How Darwin’s ‘Descent of Man’ Holds Up 150 Years After Publication
Questions still swirl around the author’s theories about sexual selection and the evolution of minds and morals
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