War on Science takes aim at science’s global culture wars. Edited by controversial physicist Lawrence Krauss, it argues ...

A century ago, two oddly domestic puzzles helped set the rules for what modern science treats as "real": a Guinness brewer ...

The message is hammered over and over, in news conferences, hearings, and executive orders: President Donald Trump and his ...

After decades of intense focus on genetics, the biomedical research community is undergoing a major shift, focusing on a new ...

The choreographed movements that cells perform to form complex biological shapes, like our hands, have fascinated scientists for centuries. Now, researchers at EMBL Barcelona have launched LimbNET, an ...

Pairing cutting-edge chemistry with artificial intelligence, a multidisciplinary team of scientists today published fresh chemical evidence of Earth’s earliest life – concealed in 3.3-billion-year-old ...

By the usual logic of evolution, menopause shouldn’t really exist. Even our closest relatives, chimpanzees, experience it ...

Bigfoot has long lived in the realm of campfire stories and grainy photos, but the modern search for the creature is ...

The reason we can gracefully glide on an ice-skating rink or clumsily slip on an icy sidewalk is that the surface of ice is ...

A completely new order of marine sponges has been found by researchers at the Museum of Evolution, Uppsala University. The sponge order, named Vilesida, produces substances that could be used in drug ...