SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

A common houseplant hides a pattern that may reveal how some leaf veins form.The leaves of the Chinese money plant (Pilea peperomioides) display a geometric pattern called a Voronoi diagram, researchers report May 12 in Nature Communications. That pattern...

As you age, your memory will likely decline. Your ability to recall where you parked the car or the...

Kampala, Uganda — The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and neighboring Uganda is still spreading one month after the outbreak was declared. The total number of confirmed cases surged between Monday and...

A corporate merger that would form the largest electric utility in the United States is underway. It’s just one of many recent utility mergers and acquisitions as electric utilities enter a period of rapid growth.On...

Ariel Waldman is standing all alone on a planet that looks a lot like Mars. At her feet are...

The ocean is home to some of the richest biodiversity on Earth. From coral reefs and mangrove forests to the deep sea, marine ecosystems sustain countless species, support coastal communities, regulate the climate and underpin...

In 2026, MIT granted tenure to 10 faculty members across the School of Engineering. This year’s tenured...

An international team of researchers has developed a novel fluorescent nanosensor powered by carbon nanotubes that is...

Earth’s oceans are heating up, but one patch in the North Atlantic has cooled by about 1 degree Celsius since the 19th century. Scientists now think they know why: The “cold blob” is the result of slowing ocean heat...

Students in New Jersey will hear from NASA astronauts Chris Williams and Jessica Meir as they answer prerecorded STEM questions while aboard the International Space Station. The Earth-to-space call will begin at 12:05 p.m. EDT, Thursday, June 18, and will stream...