How did life begin on Earth? While scientists have theories, they don’t yet fully understand the precise chemical steps that ...

People often see science as a world apart: cool, rational and untouched by persuasion or performance. In this view, ...

People often see science as a world apart: cool, rational and untouched by persuasion or performance. In this view, scientists simply discover truth, and truth speaks for ...

Ancient scientists can be easy to dismiss. Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus, often described as the West’s first scientist ...

Ancient scientists can be easy to dismiss. Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus, often described as the West’s first scientist, believed the whole Earth was suspended on water.

Complacency and misinformation are driving Americans to undo public health progress. In the developed world, relatively ...

Beneath the shifting waters of Alexandria’s eastern harbour, on Egypt’s Mediterranean coast, lie the drowned remnants of a ...

A marathon pushes the human body close to its limits. Legs tire, lungs burn and the heart works hard for hours on end. For ...

Stuck in front of our screens all day, we often ignore our senses beyond sound and vision. And yet they are always at work.

When electricity first emerged as a technology, Edison and Tesla clashed in the “war of currents,” arguing over whether ...

The shape of the universe is not something we often think about. But my colleagues and I have published a new study suggests ...

We created a new mind, a new intelligence, and we are not even sure precisely how we did it. And rather than recognizing it ...