The oceans—engines of life on Earth and our single greatest climate regulator—are caught in a catch 22. We urgently need to ...

in what we call a depositional basin. So that's a place where sediment accumulates. and you will never ever turn into a ...

You may think you know static electricity, but its true nature has long eluded scientists. We’ve now made a huge leap towards ...

Shakespeare maintained a wide-ranging interest in different forms of “natural philosophy,” which combined what we now call ...

By TOM MURPHY IV therapy clinics are springing up around the country, touting quick ways to recover from a hangover or a hard workout. But doctors and regulators preach caution. The services have ...

Scientists and public health advocates see disconnects between what the Trump administration says about health — notably, in ...

Yet not everything went according to plan. Although the room was full of curious students, each time the floor opened for ...

From four-dimensional hexagons to the mind-bending amplituhedron, geometrical shapes are wilder than we learn at school - and ...

A novel suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to rewrite notions of time and evolution.

We use the scientific method, honed over millennia: We ask a question; we test the answer. If the test results are inconsistent, we revise our working theory. We do that over and over and over again.

Endowment tax hike poses new risk to fields beyond science, professors say. Research in humanities and the social sciences — which relies on internal funding — could be particularly vulnerable to ...

Artificial intelligence might not seem like an obvious focus for a new pope taking over the world’s largest Christian church. AI is developing faster than most people can keep track.