The U.S. is spending millions to try to control feral hogs, but are those efforts in vain?
388 years ago Galileo worked out why human giants can’t exist—and explained a law of nature
Giants have featured in stories for millennia, but the reason why they don’t exist helps explain the natural world
Tropical Storm Lala nears Hawaii as forecasters expect it to strengthen into a hurricane
Hawaii rarely sees direct hurricane hits—if Lala strengthens, it will be just the third recorded hurricane to make landfall there
Why 14 inches of rain fell in Japan in just one day
This extreme rain was deadly, with at least eight people killed and many others stranded
Why is Illinois suddenly being hit with so many tornadoes?
This state, which has seen more than 200 twisters this year, could beat Texas’s all-time record of 244 tornadoes in 12 months
The X-Files creator Chris Carter on Scully, science and the truth that’s still out there
The creator of The X-Files discusses what Frankenstein elements are in the newly released director’s cut of The X-Files: I Want to Believe and how Mary Shelley’s classic influenced the movie’s story
What the mathematics of billiards can tell us about loving and letting go
A mathematician may have solved a 250-year-old question about whether every polygon contains a path home
When will Betelgeuse go supernova?
Betelgeuse, the sky’s most famous red supergiant, is well studied but poorly understood
A nonspeaking person is the star of this opera. AI made that possible
What if artificial intelligence is used to amplify human creativity rather than replace it?
Physicists find major clue to matter’s biggest mystery
Researchers have nailed down an elusive quantity called baryon number, which may be responsible for the cosmic mismatch between matter and antimatter