The meteor fragments returned by OSIRIS-REx shed light on the entwined history of water and the chemical ingredients of life in the solar system.

Science dioramas of yesteryear can highlight the biases of the time. Exhibit experts are reimagining, annotating — and sometimes mothballing — the scenes.

The following first ran on CounterPunch at the height of the COVID pandemic in January of 2022. Are anti-vaccine ...

A “ cold shock” sounds unpromising, at least at first blush. Plunge into icy water, and, as you gasp for air, your heartbeat jumps, blood vessels constrict, stress hormones like cortisol, an ...

Living matter remains the quintessential puzzle of biological sciences, a question that embodies the intricate complexity and stunning diversity of life forms. A new study suggests that one viable ...

These images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest show just why penguins have waddled into our hearts ...

Take a walk around the Tufts campus and you’re bound to find at least one newspaper, magazine or journal lying around. Maybe ...

The Simons Foundation and publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux announce the launch of Quanta Books, a partnership imprint led by Thomas Lin, the founding editor of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Quanta ...

Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the ...

President Trump has placed an indefinite suspension on research grant reviews and travel at the National Institutes of Health ...

W ith respiratory-disease season in full swing and a bird flu outbreak rapidly evolving, the new Trump Administration has ...

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