For decades, the dream of “growing hair in a lab” has been tantalizingly close yet frustratingly out of reach. We could grow ...

In the 1950s, a passenger in Leeds, England, boarded a bus and paid their fare with a funny-looking coin. For the bus driver, it was a nuisance: a dodgy, seemingly foreign coin that wouldn’t clear the ...

Drugs originally designed to treat diabetes and obesity are reshaping medicine in unforeseen ways. Their impact on public health is really unprecedented in modern times, perhaps only upstaged by ...

“Ankle bones of Purgatorius exhibit features that indicate it lived in trees, so we initially thought its absence south of Montana could be related to the sweeping devastation of forests from the ...

In December 2024, the ATLAS astronomical survey detected a distant flash of light. It was a supernova, the explosive death of a massive star, located far, far away, roughly a billion light-years away.

The lasers alone would cost around one trillion dollars and the technology to create a nanocraft does not yet exist.

How a collection of London pigeons and Galápagos mockingbirds provided the receipts for Darwin’s biggest ideas.

The dinosaur lineage has provided us with some of the most truly terrifying animals to ever walk the planet. But we eventually learned that all birds are actually theropod dinosaurs. Looking at ...

AI-powered digital assistants can do many complex tasks on their own. But who takes responsibility when they cause harm?

People who reported “always” listening to music saw dementia risk plummet by 39% compared to those who rarely or never tuned in. They also had a 17% lower risk of Cognitive Impairment No Dementia ...

The Widmanstätten pattern also hints at how the meteorite was processed by the ancient Egyptians. The cross-hatched texture, ...

Dozens of Stand Up for Science gatherings nationwide focused on the importance of science for federal policymaking.