How did life begin on Earth? While scientists have theories, they don’t yet fully understand the precise chemical steps that ...

People often see science as a world apart: cool, rational and untouched by persuasion or performance. In this view, ...

People often see science as a world apart: cool, rational and untouched by persuasion or performance. In this view, scientists simply discover truth, and truth speaks for ...

Ancient scientists can be easy to dismiss. Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus, often described as the West’s first scientist ...

Ancient scientists can be easy to dismiss. Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus, often described as the West’s first scientist, believed the whole Earth was suspended on water.

Complacency and misinformation are driving Americans to undo public health progress. In the developed world, relatively ...

Beneath the shifting waters of Alexandria’s eastern harbour, on Egypt’s Mediterranean coast, lie the drowned remnants of a ...

A marathon pushes the human body close to its limits. Legs tire, lungs burn and the heart works hard for hours on end. For ...

In 1974, a group of farmers in the Shaanxi province of China made a discovery that would rock the archaeological community forever. At first appearing to be nothing more than common clay fragments, ...

When electricity first emerged as a technology, Edison and Tesla clashed in the “war of currents,” arguing over whether ...

Stuck in front of our screens all day, we often ignore our senses beyond sound and vision. And yet they are always at work.

Everyday life is full of small behaviors we treat as moral choices, scientific truths, or acts of civic virtue—often without much reflection. From abandoned shopping carts to climate guilt over pet ...