Some researchers are sounding the alarm over the official data sets that track crucial aspects of life in the United States, ...

A familiar trope in science fiction is the cryopreserved time traveller, their body deep-frozen in suspended animation, then thawed and reawakened in another decade or century with all of their mental ...

Skip the complicated regimens and expensive products seen on social media. The science of skin is deep but the ...

Funding for national laboratories and important research projects would increase under the government’s plans.

Paul Howarth, president of the Institute of Physics, says ‘constructive dialogue’ with the government is needed, or the country risks losing the next generation of scientists. It feels, at the moment, ...

Researchers working on the most advanced AI models want rules to be drawn up to minimize the harm the technologies could cause. Their warnings need to be heard.

Retractions correct the scientific record, but they have stigma attached to them. Some in the research community want that to change.

The fragile-looking filaments of cooled lava known as Pele’s hair can form when pockets of bubble-rich lava pull apart rapidly, experiments suggest. Among all the ways that molten rock can solidify ...

Ancient DNA and other clues from feathers found in modern Peru hint that the ancient Ychsma culture imported birds from the distant Amazon.

Researchers simulated nearly every molecule in a bacterial cell — and then watched the cell grow and reproduce.