Massive Power Failure Could Finally Cause Texas to Connect with the Nation’s Power Grids
Experts Answer the Biggest COVID Vaccine Questions
The Most Accurate Flat Map of Earth Yet
A cosmologist and his colleagues tackle a centuries-old cartographic conundrum
The First 100 Days on Mars: How NASA’s Perseverance Rover Will Begin Its Mission
Massive Power Failure Could Finally Cause Texas to Connect with the Nation’s Power Grids
Experts Answer the Biggest COVID Vaccine Questions
Physicists Need to Be More Careful with How They Name Things
The U.S. Needs a Federal Department of Science and Technology
Coronavirus News Roundup, February 13 - February 19
U.S. Officially Rejoins Paris Climate Agreement
The Coronavirus is Here to Stay—Here’s What That Means
Special Report
The Black Lives Matter Movement

What began as a call to action in response to police violence and anti-Black racism in the U.S. is now a global initiative to confront racial inequities in society, including environmental injustice, bias in academia and the public health threat of racism.
Editor's Picks
Videos
A Visual Guide to the New Coronavirus Variants
The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus seems to be suddenly acquiring mutations at a rapid rate. The most worrying variants, first discovered in South Africa and Brazil, increase the virus’s contagiousness and may even help it evade the human immune system...