For decades, the search for life beyond Earth has revolved around a key question: What molecules should scientists be looking ...
Even as temperatures rise on Earth’s surface and in the lower atmosphere, the planet’s upper atmosphere has cooled ...
Biologists have long puzzled over why organisms with similar numbers of protein-coding genes can differ so dramatically in ...
If you scroll through social media for long enough, you’ll probably find videos claiming that listening to songs tuned to “A ...
If you scroll through social media for long enough, you’ll probably find videos claiming that listening to songs tuned to “A 432Hz” can provide an amazing sense of ...
Helium isn’t just for balloons — it’s critical to everything from medical scanners to space technology. As supplies run low, ...
A new study by Earth scientists in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) offers an ...
Exercise may offer smokers a simple but effective additional tool when trying to quit, according to a new systematic review ...
New research being presented at this year’s European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2026) in Istanbul, Turkey (12-15 May) and ...
In 1970, a team of Soviet scientists started drilling. For 28 years, they kept going… until after nearly 4,000 meters… they ...
Opinion

Peter Wood

The State Department ought to revoke Charles Lieber’s passport. He has gone to work for China and his work poses a danger to the United States. Our government was lax when it ...
Apologies if you’ve heard this before. The same apocalyptic language has been trotted out whenever the Trump administration floats a proposal to reform federal science spending. In 2017, a proposal to ...