A court ruling that blocks Trump administration vaccine policy is a win for science. But much work remains to rebuild trust ...

Editor in chief Nancy Shute discusses how science and armed conflict have been intertwined throughout history, from the Greeks in 400 B.C. to the use of tear gas in the protests across the United ...

Nearly one third of sharks studied near the Bahamas’ Eleuthera Island were found to have caffeine, painkillers and other ...

Seemingly random charging of identical materials depends on the carbonaceous molecules stuck to their surfaces ...

When I was in graduate school, I once gassed out my lab with the smell of death. I was studying the products of plant decomposition, and I had placed copious quantities of duckweed into large tubs and ...

You’re hosting a wedding at your home next summer, and the happy couple asked you to decorate the four gardens on the grounds ...

Experimenters hope to harness the powerful effects of medications such as Ozempic and Wegovy at doses smaller than those studied most.

Satellite data show that U.S. cities have more nighttime cloud cover than nearby countryside, and building height and density ...

Magnetic crystals provide the earliest evidence yet of the plate tectonics that likely made Earth habitable, pushing its start back by 140 million years.

Microbes play a crucial role in maintaining the levels of many nutrients in our environment, but warming could disrupt their function in certain cycles.

Orchids don’t always reward their pollinators — sometimes they mislead them. From flowers that mimic insect mates to blooms that smell like rotting fish, orchids have evolved remarkable strategies to ...

Mosquitoes stop feeding because signals from rectal cells tell them they’re full, offering a target for preventing human bites.