A court ruling that blocks Trump administration vaccine policy is a win for science. But much work remains to rebuild trust ...

Editor in chief Nancy Shute discusses how science and armed conflict have been intertwined throughout history, from the Greeks in 400 B.C. to the use of tear gas in the protests across the United ...

Orchids don’t always reward their pollinators — sometimes they mislead them. From flowers that mimic insect mates to blooms that smell like rotting fish, orchids have evolved remarkable strategies to ...

Seemingly random charging of identical materials depends on the carbonaceous molecules stuck to their surfaces ...

A colony of African vervets in Dania Beach raises big questions about how humans can and should manage nonnative species.

You’re hosting a wedding at your home next summer, and the happy couple asked you to decorate the four gardens on the grounds ...

Nearly one third of sharks studied near the Bahamas’ Eleuthera Island were found to have caffeine, painkillers and other ...

Mosquitoes stop feeding because signals from rectal cells tell them they’re full, offering a target for preventing human bites.

Microbes play a crucial role in maintaining the levels of many nutrients in our environment, but warming could disrupt their function in certain cycles.

Magnetic crystals provide the earliest evidence yet of the plate tectonics that likely made Earth habitable, pushing its start back by 140 million years.

Satellite data show that U.S. cities have more nighttime cloud cover than nearby countryside, and building height and density ...

When combined with clinical markers, smartwatch data was able to help detect insulin resistance with nearly 90 percent ...