The existence of life for a prolonged period is the possibility that is driving this deep exploration mission on Mars. What ...

Since mindfulness is something you can practice at home for free, it often sounds like the perfect tonic for stress and ...

A key question in any discussion about climate is "How much rain fell?" But perhaps there is an even more important one. Like any household budget, the global water economy is based on "income," that ...

Researchers said they tried to manage how their activism was perceived by clarifying their expertise and acting alongside other scientists.

Americans love science and revere innovation, almost as a rule, and politicians of every stripe have spent the better part of a century promoting and protecting both. However imperfect the resulting ...

Team redates prehistoric ‘Ubeidiya in Jordan Valley to same age as oldest Georgian site, suggesting at least two distinct ...

Explore whether economics can be considered a science, analyzing its classification, testability, and consensus within social science debates.

Dressing to look more grown-up is a teenage rite of passage – but humans aren’t the only ones who do it. Baby clownfish have been found to lose their additional white vertical stripe at a younger age ...

Krupa Padhy uncovers how we really learn foreign languages – in a dual challenge involving both Portuguese and Mandarin.

It’s highly likely that humans have pheromones, and there is another clue, which is that our smells – the smells we give off as we grow up and go through puberty – change. As children, we don't smell ...

A study reveals random exploration outperforms focused analysis—shedding scientific light on non-ordinary ways of knowing.

Two skulls from Yunxian, in northern China, aren’t ancestors of Denisovans after all; they’re actually the oldest known Homo ...