NYT Science

Some live at temperatures well above the boiling point of water. Others breathe in uranium and expel the waste as teeny crystals. They are among the microbes living deep beneath us on planet Earth, thriving in the octillions.https://nyti.ms/2EDQejh 

It was a busy year for space, full of launches, goodbyes, astronomical events and surprising discoverieshttps://nyti.ms/2EASU14 

“If you snubbed out the sun tomorrow these guys wouldn’t even care”https://nyti.ms/2Eya9jm 

Sing us a song, you're the piano bot https://nyti.ms/2Eya6Ec 

The real journey to the center of the earth has begun, and it's discovering subsurface microbial beings that shake up what we think we know about lifehttps://nyti.ms/2Eya8Mk 

Here are 36 of the stories this year that kept our eyes pointed toward the stars, no matter what was happening here on the groundhttps://nyti.ms/2CpNkNw 

The bullet remained in his knee for 14 years, until it was ground into tiny, dangerous pieces.https://nyti.ms/2CqzgmA 

Geneticists may have found a way to return the bones of Aboriginal Australians to their homes. The secret? DNA.https://nyti.ms/2ECcBWh 

Imagine 200 million blue whales on a scale. That's the weight of all the microbes living beneath our planet's continents.https://nyti.ms/2EyFiDl 

“We are using our best judgment but we don’t know exactly what to do. There’s no sound science yet”https://nyti.ms/2CpL1tv 

How opioids can hijack the brainhttps://nyti.ms/2EydyyB 

Highlights from the past year in medical and health developmentshttps://nyti.ms/2CpXptS 

Highlights from the year in space and astronomy developmentshttps://nyti.ms/2EBvGI9 

The study of microbial life in extreme sites beneath our oceans and continents has turned what we know about the world literally upside downhttps://nyti.ms/2CqzhXG 

What we learned in our science reporting in the past year, and what we're still thinking abouthttps://nyti.ms/2CpXopO 

Look back at how much space news got packed into 2018https://nyti.ms/2Cp6UJr 

What we learned in our medical and health reporting in the past year, and what we're still thinking abouthttps://nyti.ms/2CoGdEN 

Highlights from the past year in science developmentshttps://nyti.ms/2EBuAw1 

Geneticists may have found a way to return the bones of Aboriginal Australians to their homes. The secret? DNA.https://nyti.ms/2EyR40r 

A scientist in China claimed to have created the world’s first gene-edited human beings. How should the U.S. respond?https://nyti.ms/2CopEc1