High-speed cameras capture how bouncing rain spreads crop disease.

In Tibet, a geologist learns how folk stories may record actual catastrophes.

Headlines and apocalyptic notions about designer babies proliferated last month after Chinese scientists published the results of a curious set of experiments on human embryos. The researchers were looking to understand whether gene-editing technology could correct, before birth, a malformed gene that can cause a potentially devastating blood disease. They found that the method introduced new […]

This bitter dispute set the stage for the modern weather forecast.

This bitter dispute set the stage for the modern weather forecast.

The intricate compatibility of water and life on Earth may not extend to other planets.