A study of 50 crab species in Japan traces the iconic sideways walk to a single ancestor, suggesting the trait drove the ...

A Biography lifts the curtain on the private life of Charles Darwin, one of science’s most controversial pioneers.

British chef Mike Keen will ski across Greenland eating only fermented seal. Researchers will study how the Inuit diet shapes ...

Stefan Lovgren writes about the environment globally, with a focus on freshwater issues. He is coauthor of Chasing Giants: In Search of the World’s Largest Freshwater Fish.

More than half of rural hospitals and more than one-third of urban hospitals did not offer labor and delivery services in ...

Water droplets on soap films orbited and merged like colliding galaxies, a technique that could help scientists study the ...

Technologies, including chatbots, promise to make life easier. But removing the friction, or effort involved in thinking, has ...

Scientists and journalists share a core belief in questioning, observing and verifying to reach the truth. Science News reports on crucial research and discovery across science disciplines. We need ...

For nearly a decade, Vincent Bombail has been tickling rats. It’s been a standard technique used in the study of animal ...

A 59,000-year-old Neandertal molar unearthed in Siberia was drilled with a stone tool – the earliest evidence of primitive ...

As public health officials around the world monitor dozens of former passengers and crewmembers of the MV Hondius for signs ...

Tenets of quantum mechanics and special relativity, among other theoretical ideas, lead inexorably to string theory.