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 ...

Fifteen years ago cosmologists were flying high. The simple but wildly successful “standard model of cosmology” could, with just a few ingredients, account for a lot of what we see in the ...

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 ...

Long ago we humans defined a day as the time it takes Earth to make one rotation about its axis, with one sunrise and one sunset. Our predecessors partitioned that day into 24 hours. But if Earth ...

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

No words are needed for animals to perform all sorts of problem-solving challenges outplay humans in a strategy game New ...