Science

India recently announced a host of ambitious space projects and approved 227bn rupees ($2.7bn; £2.1bn) for them.

As dark sky sanctuaries grow in popularity, scientists are revealing more of the benefits of darkness—from repairing DNA to improving your mental health.

Farmers in the San Luis Valley hope to restore shrinking aquifers that make farming possible here. Their tactic: groundwater conservation easements.

Big companies use DNA from wild organisms to make money. This new plan aims to make them pay for it.

It took over a year for citizen scientists to decode the signal.

Kindergarten-age kids excel at lots of things, but focusing efficiently on a task is not typically one of their strong suits.

Astronomers are reveling in the James Webb Space Telescope’s discoveries about the formative epoch of cosmic history. The galaxies were never supposed to be so bright. They were never supposed to be so big.

If you have a black spatula in your kitchen, or other black plastic items around your house like takeout containers or children’s toys, they could contain high levels of toxic flame retardants.

Researchers have used artificial intelligence (AI) to uncover 70,500 viruses previously unknown to science1, many of them weird and nothing like known species.

In a real headscratcher, scientists have applied a theory of word frequency to three pools of physics equations and drawn some conclusions.