In this unusually eventful — mostly not in good ways — year for higher education, it’s salutary to be reminded how much good ...

Tom Levy’s career has spanned 40 years in the deserts of the Holy Land in Israel and Jordan, and is now focused on the ...

It’s hard enough to come to terms with your own mortality. But there are some iconic stars and public figures who are so ...

For many years, like most of my peers, I thought that science was part of the solution. More knowledge and innovation would ...

Readers are spoiled for choice when it comes to popular science reading this month, with new titles by major names including ...

A doctoral student recreated a tiny piece of the universe in a bottle to investigate the chemistry that led to life on Earth.

A bizarre fossil called Prototaxites, which was the largest life-form on land 400 million years ago, may have been a completely unknown form of multicellular life, according to a new study.

Dating to only a billion years after the big bang, JADES-ID1 may be the earliest, most distant galaxy protocluster astronomers have ever seen ...

In 1869, Swiss scientist Friedrich Miescher isolated a mysterious substance from cell nuclei—an overlooked finding that would ...

The study highlights a presymptomatic phase in type 1 diabetes progression, using immune niches to track immune changes ...

In South Africa, paleontology has been dominated by white people. Lazarus Kgasi is changing that dynamic — and coloring in the picture of the world our distant ancestors once inhabited.