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.

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

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

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.

A new study in Nature describing a fossil of a nearly complete and intact bird skull from Antarctica is shedding light on the ...

This study reveals the key role of microglia, brain’s immune cells, in brain metastases progression and identifies a strategy ...

Kids today consume far more sugar than recommended, but the effects don’t stop in childhood. New research reveals surprising ways early sugar exposure shapes long-term health.

The stop-work order on U.S.A.I.D.-funded research has left thousands of people with experimental drugs and devices in their ...

New research reveals that Earth and Mars lost essential elements due to violent cosmic collisions, not early planetary ...

Scientists say they’ve cracked the code for boiling the perfect egg. Making an ideal boiled egg is a challenge because the ...