Life may have emerged from a surprisingly simple network of chemical reactions long before cells or genes existed.

There's a common misconception that science is inherently neutral and objective, absolving it of any responsibility for racist beliefs and practices. However, many of the scientific advancements we ...

Small startups and big companies alike are recognizing that modern biotech R&D is as much a data problem as a science problem. Cloud technologies offer a way to bring together massive amounts of ...

Science itself isn’t the problem how it’s communicated often is. Complex findings are simplified, incentives distort ...

“Lack of wings and lack of evident means of propulsion clearly rule out conventional aircraft and helicopters. Many are soundless, many move at such speeds and with such accelerations that they defy ...

Netflix's "3 Body Problem" is based on a science-fiction trilogy and follows a group of physicists. We asked an astronomer and an aerospace engineer to explain some of the show's scientific concepts.

Recent college graduates are questioning the value of their computer science degrees because there aren't as many lucrative ...

This essay is adapted from "Anti-Science and the Assault on Democracy: Defending Reason in a Free Society," by Michael J. Thompson and Gregory R. Smulewicz-Zucker, published by Prometheus Books. In ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused all of us to make difficult decisions about behaviors we used to take for granted. Those decisions weigh the risk of viral spread with our need for human contact. To ...

In case you haven’t noticed—and given a pandemic, political mayhem, and general weariness, you would be forgiven if you haven’t—a new front in the decadeslong reading wars has opened up called “the ...