Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant species -- according to estimates, roughly 600 plant species have died out since 1750 -- twice the number of animal species lost. But which species ...

Misinformation about scientific topics, including falsehoods such as vaccines cause autism and climate change being an ...

A deep-sea detector glimpsed a particle with 220 million billion electron volts of energy — around 20 times as energetic as any neutrino seen before.

Scientists claim to have made a stunning breakthrough in the quest to unlock quantum teleportation. If rolled out, quantum ...

The internet erupted in controversy over Felisa Wolfe-Simon and colleagues’ claim of a microbe thriving on arsenic. Nearly 15 ...

Scientists have identified a new threat that could disrupt the commercial airspace as at least three deadly crashes have ...

A major milestone in quantum computing has been achieved after researchers at the University of Oxford built a scalable ...

Early Europeans known as the Magdalenians celebrated by removing the ears of their enemies, scooping out their brains, and ...

With all the politics trumping public health, I figured Delray Beach would just go with the flow. I was wrong.

Though the majority of blonde-haired people today come from Europe, the unique hair colour originated in a land that is a ...

Trump called to end ‘reliance on junk science.’ But the order itself included claims that clash with leading medical research and practice.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of Short Wave about the fluid dynamics of crowds, an early fossil of a modern bird and new data on how people's moods change through the day.