Women's hidden extra work, positive tipping points and new thinking on autism – there's much to chew on in this year's best ...

A Star Trek–inspired idea by Miguel Alcubierre kicked off decades of theory and experiments as scientists pursue plausible ...

We can't see dark matter directly, so studying it pushes the boundaries of our creativity as scientists. How exciting, says ...

In the misty coastal town of Astoria, where the Columbia River embraces the Pacific, there exists a portal to the past that will have you rethinking the capacity of your vehicle before you even walk ...

In 1999, Belgian physicist Chris Van Den Broeck implemented a minor alteration to Alcubierre’s concept by shrinking the ...

Here is the standout fiction and nonfiction of the year, selected by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

The universe occasionally produces a huge surprise that proves physicists wrong, says Kip Thorne, who grew up in Logan, Utah, ...