Matteo Farinella sketched out a career in science illustration, making neuroscience research more accessible to the public.

He became an advocate of a woman’s right to choose and once said, “It is always tragic when politics takes the most ...

In the twilight depths of the Gulf of Mexico, about as deep down as a football field is long, U.S. Navy divers carefully snip ...

Photographer Petr Horálek observed both a lunar eclipse and a galaxy of stars from the the US National Science Foundation’s ...

Around 66 million years ago, a six-mile-wide asteroid hit Earth, triggering the extinction of three-quarters of all living ...

A new study proposes that seeding the orb’s underground ocean with microbes might help us learn how to make other worlds ...

Brickell's life has taken many different directions, but her passion for learning, sense of adventure and dedication to her home state have always been driving forces in her career.

Impossible,” agent Ethan Hunt takes a death-defying dive. Doctors tell us the science of saving real-life scuba divers.

Charging electric-vehicle batteries in Ithaca's frigid winter can be tough, and freezing temperatures also decrease the ...

Fortunately for residents of California, Oregon and Washington, Axial Seamount doesn't erupt explosively, so it poses zero ...

How life arose remains a looming question in science that researchers are seeking to answer by studying the features shared among life today. Everything alive is made up of cells, and what made the ...

The science magazine Nature announced the results of its annual Scientist at Work photography contest. The winning entries are dramatic, intimate portraits of research.