A gigantic space rock that slammed into Earth more than three billion years ago grievously wounded the biosphere—and then ...

Oregon decriminalized hard drugs in 2021 and recriminalized them last month. A new analysis shows the laws likely had little ...

For example, he and his colleagues found that the empty set takes more time for people to process than the symbolic numeral 0 ...

Observations from a retrofitted spy plane hint at a connection between powerful gamma-ray flashes and a thunderstorm’s ...

People are pulling their kids out of traditional education to learn while they travel. Data on educational success are ...

Michaela Maya-Mrschtik has a doctorate in molecular biology and is a medicine editor at Spektrum der Wissenschaft, a partner publication of Scientific American.

Jennie Germann Molz is a professor of sociology at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass. Her research focuses on tourism and technology, traveling families, digital nomadism and mobile ...

Gentle nasal spray vaccines against COVID, the flu and RSV are coming. They may work better than shots in the arm ...

Their dream came spectacularly true on that momentous day in 1974. The Lucy fossil preserved skull fragments and a lower jaw ...

Estimates of how fast the universe is expanding disagree. Could a new form of dark energy resolve the problem?

Occam’s razor holds that the simplest explanation is closest to the truth. But the real world is quite complex ...