Paleontologists sifting through the archives of Los Angeles’ La Brea Tar Pits have discovered a new species of extinct Ice ...

Questions of public trust can be addressed only through better communication and research that meets society’s interests.

Proposed federal rules would rely on political appointees to decide how a lot of U.S. science gets done. History shows the consequences of such actions.

A robot named Adam was the first of its kind to do science. Adam mimicked a biologist. After coming up with questions to ask about yeast, the machine tested those questions inside a robotic laboratory ...

Christof Koch is taking on one of science’s deepest mysteries: how the brain creates conscious experience, or whether it ...

A 2023 simulation finally settled a debate that began when the artifact surfaced in 1898.

The progress of science in the last 400 years is mind-blowing. Who would have thought we’d be able to trace the history of our universe to its origins 14 billion years ago? Science has increased the ...

Climate change is being driven largely by the greenhouse gases we’ve pumped into the atmosphere, which trap more of the Sun’s energy there. That added energy increases the odds of extreme events: ...

Let’s start with a hypothetical situation. Imagine you’re a bird-watcher. You’ve been out in the field snapping shots of ...