Scientists from the California Academy of Sciences described 72 new species last year, from elegant birds to strange sea ...

Lived experiences shape how science is conducted. This matters because who gets to speak for science steers which problems ...

At first glance, some scientific research can seem, well, impractical. When physicists began exploring the strange, subatomic ...

A University of Wyoming faculty member wants to help college students become better writers of science by giving academics ...

January is a good time to take stock of our lives – but where to start? David Robson finds some answers in the latest ...

Stanford scientists have solved a long-standing challenge in growing brain organoids by using a simple food additive to keep them from sticking together. The breakthrough enables the production of ...

Hurricane Erin weakened into a Category 2 storm over Monday evening, the latest shift in what has been a remarkably fast-changing storm. The hurricane’s behavior in recent days makes it one of the ...

Last week, the National Institutes of Health finally got some good news. A Senate subcommittee voted, with support from both parties, to increase the agency’s $48 billion budget—a direct rebuke to the ...

Roald Sagdeev has already watched one scientific empire rot from the inside. When Sagdeev began his career, in 1955, science in the Soviet Union was nearing its apex. At the Kurchatov Institute in ...

A growing recognition of the excesses of the cultural left has created an opening in contemporary intellectual life. This moment requires a new research agenda, a post-progressive movement in the ...

ST. PAUL — Buffeted by a continuous drop in visitors, the Science Museum of Minnesota is restructuring, cutting 43 full-time employees — or 13% of its staff — while reducing its $38 million general ...

What’s the first thing you do after waking up each morning, before you’ve even gotten out of bed? For many people, it’s checking the weather. For most, this is a thoughtless chore, an unexciting daily ...