Life may have started in sticky, rock-hugging gels rather than inside cells. Researchers suggest these primitive, biofilm-like materials could trap and concentrate molecules, giving early chemistry a ...

While the Trump administration is defunding scientific research and imposing ideological demands on universities, the defenders of this repression are calling for even worse attacks against higher e ...

This is the first time in American history that Guantánamo has been used to house immigrants who had been living in the U.S.

Denis Johnson wrote about some of the most unlikable characters in American fiction, and yet he always managed to make readers care what happened to them. This talent may have had something to do with ...

Rebekah Stewart, NP, a nurse at the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS), got a call last April that brought her to tears. She had been selected for deployment to the Trump administration's new ...

This story was co-published with The Guardian. Police departments across the U.S. are quietly leveraging school district ...

How did life begin? A team of scientists from Japan, Malaysia, the United Kingdom, and Germany believes the answer may involve sticky gels that coated ...

Researchers looking for signs of extraterrestrial life instead stumbled upon a pulsar at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

The rise of AI and synthetic biology has made deadly diseases look like a ‘low-risk, high-reward’ option for would-be ...

In this Q&A with the authors of a recent book about Bigfoot hunters, they admit these people are neither anti-science nor ...

The National Wallace Monument in Stirling inspired the lab of Victor Frankenstein (Oscar Isaac), and she drew from the University of Glasgow’s vaulted ceilings for the cell of the Creature (Jacob ...

Rep. Katherine Clark (Mass.), the No. 2 House Democrat, slammed the GOP-backed voting bill that the House is set to vote on ...