Every year thousands of exploding stars appear in bizarre forms. Astronomers want to know what makes them go boom. By Daniel Kasen.

To help these cuddlies survive, we must understand the biology of their death. By Garret Suen, Kimberly Dill-McFarland, & Tommy Leung

Shooting zombies and repelling aliens can lead to lasting improvement in mental skills. By Daphne Bavelier and C. Shawn Green.

If we're not careful, we could find ourselves at odds with intelligent machines whose objectives conflict with our own. By Stuart Russell.

Tesla's real problem isn't that its cars are expensive. It's that they're unreliable. By Timothy B. Lee with Edward Niedermeyer.

About 50 million in the U.S. suffer from it. Very little research is done and doctors lack the skill to treat it. By Robert Caudle.

If we saw science as a human construction, science and our understanding of it would be better off. By Julia Belluz and Steven Hoffman

Scientists are trying to make quantum computers a reality by connecting many small networks together into one large whole.

Simulating Evolution: In Evolutionary Science, how close do computer models come to reality? By Christoph Adami.

Where did the Indo-European language family originate? New evidence heightens the scientific disagreements. By Michael Balter