Science

Fragments of temperate rainforest grow in parts of England, Wales and Scotland, and with the right action we could help...

Compared to a few decades ago, young people have surprisingly less access to high-quality, informative sex education. Typically, human sexuality...

Space elevators are often dismissed as a science fiction dream, but I believe they will exist soon—perhaps in two or...

Researchers have reproduced the entire biochemical pathway for how coca plants make cocaine in another plant, which could help people...

When electrons couple up, further quantum trickery makes superconductivity unavoidable. Normally, electrons can’t overlap, but Cooper pairs follow a different...

In 2009, when Qatar placed its bid to host the men’s World Cup, many wondered how a country so hot—summer...

Having drones on strings attached to a person could provide a more realistic simulation of interacting with physical objects in...

This story originally appeared in Hakai Magazine and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Pushed by climate change, almost every...

During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, Danone Portugal introduced a new yogurt named Juntos, which means “together” in...

Observations of a huge test satellite that launched in September have fuelled concerns about the impact a planned fleet could...

Scientists are on the verge of figuring out how to put humans in a state of suspended animation. It could...

Carnivorous plants’ peculiar strategies for snagging live prey have long captured the public imagination. But even within this strange group,...

Attacks on Ukraine's power grid took all 15 of the nation's nuclear reactors offline for the first time ever. Russia...

Capturing or otherwise neutralizing the CO2 must be done safely, says Stephen Wallace, who runs a microbiology lab at the...

If every living thing died right now, by some estimates only around 1 percent would become fossils. Even fewer would...

An mRNA vaccine has been found to induce antibody responses against all 20 known subtypes of influenza A and B...