In the wake of funding cuts to mRNA vaccine research, we revisit a February story about a promising vaccine for pancreatic ...

Astronomers found a supernova whose lighter outer layers had been stripped away, revealing an inner shell rich in silicon and ...

Humans drove wolves nearly to extinction in the American West. Reintroducing them in 1995 was, and still is, controversial.

RFK Jr. canceled nearly $500 million in mRNA vaccine research funding. Plus, the latest climate news, from flooding in Alaska ...

The FDA and HHS plan to eliminate petroleum-based food dyes as part of the MAHA agenda. What does science say about their effects on health?

Science journalist Tom Zeller Jr. has suffered from debilitating cluster headaches for three decades. Like other cluster ...

Neurologist Bruce Dobkin started hearing a phantom choir singing on a loop after he received a cochlear implant. He’s not the ...

In July 1925, physicist Werner Heisenberg wrote a letter to Wolfgang Pauli sharing his new ideas about what would eventually become known as quantum theory. A hundred years later, that theory has been ...

Underground fungal networks are crucial to life on Earth. But a new map shows that less than 10% of fungal hotspots are in ...

A jazz musician-turned-micrometeorite hunter gives advice on how to search for the tiny bits of cosmic dust that could be covering your rooftop.

The following is an excerpt from Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson. There are many portraits, including Leonardo’s earlier La Belle Ferronnière, in which the subject’s eyes appear to move as the ...

Ultraviolet perception is incredibly common in animals—just not in humans. Ed Yong dives into the history of how scientists saw the light.