The winter solstice is the culmination of a period every year when each cell in our body literally craves more light ...

Life on our planet has experienced many mass extinctions over its 4.5 billion years. Scientists see evidence for at least ...

Things have been tumultuous lately on Earth. Donald Trump will soon be sworn in as U.S. president, wars are raging, and ...

In “ The End of the Lab Rat ?,” Rachel Nuwer writes that “90 percent of novel drugs that work in animal models fail in human ...

He comes to a fork in a road and has to ask a bystander which branch he should take to reach a village. He has no way of ...

If Brown’s hidden world is real, Rubin will almost certainly find it or strong indirect evidence that it exists. “In the ...

The ongoing bird flu outbreak in the U.S. just got a bit more concerning: a person in Louisiana has been hospitalized with ...

A new study published on December 18 in Nature offers a way to explain that 150-million-year gap. Computer modeling and ...

Terpenes can play a wide range of beneficial ecological roles: they can protect plants from hungry predators and parasites, ...

The scientists behind a popular study on the health effects of flame retardants in black plastic cooking utensils and toys ...

In the often-gloomy genre of climate fiction, a new novel hits a high-water mark for its empathy ...

A new combo of climate and habitat crises, along with immune system stress, is driving more bat-borne viruses to afflict us ...