When U.C.L.A. psychologists first proposed teaching adults with autism how to date, funders wouldn’t go near it. Now we are in a new world.
By Ellen Barry
Jens Mortensen for The New York Times
A story of bowling pins, patterns and medical miracles.
By Steven Strogatz and Jens Mortensen
Best Illusion of the Year Contest/Neural Correlate Society
The Best Illusion of the Year contest offers researchers, and participants, an opportunity to explore the gaps and limits of human perception.
By Katrina Miller
Reuters
Nuclear experts say the president’s rejection of the restrictive deal forced him to neutralize an Iranian threat of his own making.
By William J. Broad and Ronen Bergman
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Universities across the country are scrambling to understand the implications of generative A.I.’s transformation of technology.
By Steve Lohr
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NASA Goddard
Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new simulations show.
By Katherine Kornei
Jesper Bay/Danish Institute for Fisheries and Marine Research
Two new studies add to the evidence that human activity, from fishing to urban development, is driving the evolution of wild animals.
By Emily Anthes
Shoa et al., Cell Reports Physical Science 2025
Scientists have devised a way of writing and storing messages by creating patterns of air bubbles in sheets of ice.
By Alexander Nazaryan
Franziska Wegdell/Kokolopori Bonobo Research Project
Origins
The way that human adults talk to young children is unique among primates, a new study found. That might be one secret to our species’ grasp of language.
By Carl Zimmer
In a new sign of toolmaking in marine mammals, orcas in the Pacific Northwest were recorded rubbing stalks of kelp against each other’s bodies, a study shows.
By Jacey Fortin
Japanese researchers turned to “experimental archaeology” to study how ancient humans navigated powerful ocean currents and migrated offshore.
By Franz Lidz
Let’s review how we got here, and closely examine what the rock would allow.
By John Branch and Jeremy White
Briny warm water is mixing on the surface of the ocean, making sea ice melt faster, a new study found.
By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey
He chased eclipses for five decades, wrote several books about them and worked with NASA to make data accessible to nonscientist sky gazers.
By Michael S. Rosenwald
Wesley Lapointe for The New York Times
Human-caused global warming has been increasing faster and faster since the 1970s.
By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey, Claire Brown and Mira Rojanasakul
Chandan Khanna/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
U.S. officials said they would stop providing the satellite data online on July 31 rather at the end of June.
By Rebecca Dzombak and Sachi Kitajima Mulkey
Mario Tama/Getty Images
Nearly half the citizens of the tiny Pacific Island nation have already applied in a lottery for Australian visas amid an existential threat from global warming and sea-level rise.
By Max Bearak
Randi Baird for The New York Times
Wind and solar companies were already bracing for Congress to end federal subsidies. But the Senate bill goes even further and penalizes those industries.
By Brad Plumer
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Critics saw in the move the beginnings of a more restrictive approach to providing vaccines to Americans.
By Apoorva Mandavilli
Melissa Golden for The New York Times
The reconstituted C.D.C. panel will revisit the standard vaccination schedule. The former head of an anti-vaccine group is now a special federal employee.
