Scientific American

After netting the world’s highest-paying science award, preeminent theoretical physicist Gerard ’t Hooft reflects on his legacy and the future of physics

Colossal Bioscience says it has “de-extincted” the dire wolf, but other scientists disagree and say more important conservation science is being lost in all the hype

The third confirmed location of extinct hominins known as Denisovans shows these human cousins adapted to an impressive range of environments

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope provided a closer look at the aftermath of a star that wreaked violence on its planet

A long-simmering disagreement over the universe’s present-day expansion rate shows no signs of resolution, leaving experts increasingly vexed

The extinct giant canids were a remarkable example of convergent evolution