In perhaps the most widely repeated story in all of science, Newton is said to have chanced upon the theory of gravity while contemplating under the shade of an apple tree. According to the legend ...

NASA announced two awards Thursday to establish scientific consortia – multi-institutional coalitions to conduct ground-based studies that help address the agency’s goals of maintaining a sustained ...

China hopes a giant laboratory 2,300 feet underground is key to beating the US at discovering the secrets of the universe’s most mysterious particles–neutrinos. Slated for completion next year ...

Non-fiction publishing is failing its readers. It is pumping out books with supposedly game-changing ideas, without bothering to ensure basic accuracy. These tomes have the appearance of academic ...

The big bang theory of the universe starts with a single point which rapidly expanded and slowly evolved into the cosmos we see today. Some 13.8 billion years ago, the universe was a dense, ...

What this year’s Nobels can teach us about science and humanity. By Alan Burdick and Katrina Miller We are journalists on The Times’s Science desk. Technology observers have grown increasingly ...