Is there anything you’d like to add? Traveling so much has been very tough for raising a family. Pilots bid for trips and ...

Protective policies, health insurance, and community are all important variables when gender-diverse scientists ask, “Where ...

This image shows a faint nebula surrounding a star in the northern constellation Cygnus. Created by amateur Peter Goodhew, it ...

The Department of Commerce’s new scientific-integrity policy retains references to objectivity, transparency, and scientific ...

See also the upcoming interview with Jennifer’s pilot husband, Matthew Inman.

On the cover An atmospheric river—a long, flowing band of concentrated water vapor—formed an arc on 20 February 2017 that stretched from Hawaii to the western coast of the US. The system delivered ...

Even a limited nuclear war could disrupt the climate, ecosystems, and global food supplies. Nuclear strategies and decisions should be required to factor in those potential consequences. Nuclear ...

J. Robert Oppenheimer, circa 1960. Thomas Kuhn, noted historian and philosopher of science, interviewed J. Robert Oppenheimer as part of a project to document the birth of quantum mechanics. Those ...

All cats, as far as anyone can tell, are either dead or alive—but atoms can be in two places at once. The crisp boundaries and deterministic behaviors we experience in the classical, macroscopic world ...

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis (from left to right). (Photos, from left, by University of California, Berkeley; Yale University; Rocco Ceselin for Nature.) John Clarke of the ...

“If two separated bodies, each by itself known maximally, enter a situation in which they influence each other, and separate again, then there occurs regularly that which I have [just] called ...

The Chinese American physicist led groundbreaking experiments that demonstrated parity violation and photon entanglement. Many in the physics community say Wu deserved more accolades in her lifetime.