What We're Reading

Alston’s singing mice “converse,” scientists report, a finding that may shed light on human language. It is also the focus of Arkarup Banerjee of the Simons Society of Fellows.

Axions? Phantom energy? Astrophysicists scramble to patch a hole in the universe, rewriting cosmic history in the process.

NASA, the National Science Foundation and the Environmental Protection Agency are among the agencies whose funding would increase.

Analysis of more than 11.5 million medical research papers from 1980 to 2016 found a majority overlooked the role of sex differences in genetics, physiology and the way the body responds to drugs.

Researchers have been left without access to new papers as libraries and the major publisher fail to agree on subscription deals.

Gene-edited babies, head transplants and other proposals suggest that rich-world scientists go to other countries to conduct questionable experiments.

The American Society of Microbiology announced 109 new fellows elected to the American Academy of Microbiology, an honorific leadership group within the ASM.

AAAS fellow and molecular biologist Maryam Zaringhalam argues that exposure to the “how” and “why” of science can help prepare aspiring scientists for the rigors of independent inquiry.

Former particle physicist Sabine Hossenfelder argues that scientists have not been forthcoming in the limitations of CERN's Large Hadron Collider and a new proposed collider — in that, aside from the discovery of the Higgs boson, they are not likely to find anything new.

The World Health Organization has ranked vaccine hesitancy — the growing resistance to widely available lifesaving vaccines — as one of the top 10 health threats in the world for 2019. The Times editorial board lists a few ways to combat the anti-vaxers.