Plus: Black people across the US have received racist texts purporting to be from Trump supporters This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's ...

Rapid advances in applying artificial intelligence to simulations in physics and chemistry have some people questioning whether we will even need quantum computers at all.

Donald Trump’s decisive victory is a stunning setback for the fight against climate change. The Republican president-elect’s ...

Seven states are set to implement laws supporting abortion access, but the future of reproductive rights in the US is unclear ...

His return to the White House puts the world’s second-largest climate polluter on an emissions trajectory we can’t afford.

D barcodes enable traceability and authentication for modern commerce, but they require strong data foundations, from supplier to consumer.

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Researchers are working on technology that could follow NASA’s Europa Clipper mission and hunt for life in the ocean of ...

The US, which is currently the world’s second-largest greenhouse-gas emitter and has added more climate pollution to the atmosphere than any other nation, is now very unlikely to hit Biden’s 2030 goal ...

To get answers from animals, scientists need to come up with creative experiments to learn why they behave the way they do.

Jennifer Doudna, one of the inventors of the breakthrough gene-editing tool CRISPR, says the technology will help the world ...