Global warming is hard to understand. This statistic isn’t.
He could prove cataclysmic.
In 1997, David Wolf cast his ballot in microgravity. This year, he’s happy to wait in line on Earth.
It’s time to vote.
A new approach to a once-farfetched theory is making it plausible that the brain functions like a quantum computer.
Ballot provisions in Washington and Florida reveal the conflicting ways that Americans are responding to climate change.
Adolescent tyrannosaurs’ lean bodies may have given them hunting skills that allowed them to avoid competition with their beefier elders.
The gorgeous sequel to the BBC’s groundbreaking wildlife series reveals how far nature documentaries have come—and what they lost in the process.
The Republican nominee has dismissed his misogynist speech as “just words.” But multiple studies show rude rhetoric can have a major impact on thinking, stress, and self-esteem.
The group behind the contested project is still pushing for construction on the Big Island, but has selected an alternate site just in case.
How a corrosive culture keeps women out of leadership positions on math journals
During the recent record-breaking outbreak, the virus picked up a mutation that made it better at infecting human cells.
The thorny devil stays hydrated thanks to its skin, which pulls water away from moist grains, against gravity and into its mouth.
A simple study of rodent patterns hints at our growing ability to link genetic changes to physical ones.
Native chefs and farmers are bringing back lost flavors in hopes of fighting diabetes and obesity.
The difference between 1.5 and 2 degrees of global warming might be dramatic.
Since the 1950s, presidential science advisors have juggled researchers’ and politicians’ demands—except when Nixon abolished his administration’s entire Science Advisory Committee.
The idea that humans are ephemeral compared to the workings of nature isn’t as persuasive as it once was.
Their prehistoric liaisons mirror those between our own ancestors, Neanderthals, and other groups of early humans.
Insects that have been implanted with a virus-blocking bacterium will finally be tested at large scales, over two cities in Brazil and Colombia.
A 17-years-long study reveals how the complex relationships between a cell’s genes allow it to function.