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

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

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

February 2018 as the editor in chief of Science News. Shute is a science journalist in print, digital and broadcast, and a ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

Around one in 500 women don’t have a functioning womb, needed to carry a pregnancy. This condition, called absolute uterine ...

At some 60 billion times the mass of the sun, this dark void could be home to a pair of black holes that are due for a cosmic ...