The politicization of pot As the war on drugs was waged on America’s streets, it was also playing out in sports arenas around the world. “We had to draw a lesson from Nagano,” IOC Director ...

The oldest DNA ever retrieved, preserved in sediments in northern Greenland, reveals that Arctic and temperate species once commingled in an ecosystem unlike anything that exists today.

Some 110 million U.S. households use a range–or cooktop and oven–for cooking. About two-thirds of those are powered by electricity, while one-third use natural gas or other fuels. But of the ...

Since 2005, when Stanford University professor John Ioannidis published his paper “Why Most Published Findings Are False” in PLOS Medicine , reports have been mounting of studies that are ...

Ahh, cast iron pans. Love ‘em or hate ‘em, they’ve been around for hundreds of years. With proper maintenance, they can last long enough to become family heirlooms. A cornerstone of this pan ...

Happy Camp is tucked in the Klamath River Valley, in the traditional homeland of the Karuk people, and it is still home to a significant Native American population. But many residents were forced ...

Even the wild axolotl had long been an urban animal, says Luis Zambrano, a biologist at the National Autonomous University in Mexico City and another of the “Two Axolotls” authors. It thrived ...

Learn about Asian and Pacific Islander American scientists who have helped change the world, and the call for greater inclusion of their work in curriculum and textbooks.

The magician swaps the card at the moment their hand changes direction. That abrupt change in direction is all the misdirection they need to distract the audience from their sleight of hand, says ...

As schools across the country close due to the COVID-19 pandemic, NOVA is committed to providing free STEM resources so that student learning can continue at home. Julianna Cecere/KQED ...

(This program is no longer streaming). Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs in a fiery global catastrophe. But we know little about how their successors, the mammals ...

An Oregon State University field school student shows a visitor an excavated area at the Cooper’s Ferry archaeological site in western Idaho, which contains 16,000-year-old artifacts from some ...