In 2008, the National Academy of Sciences put forth a textbook-ish definition of "science": "The use of evidence to construct testable explanations and predictions of natural phenomena, as well as the ...

As life-preserving medical technology advanced in the second half of the 20th century, doctors and families were faced with a thorny decision, one with weighty legal and moral implications: How should ...

There are so many competing definitions of “science fiction”that we could be here all day arguing about which one is correct. But back in 1909, a writer named Maurice Renard wrote an essay explaining ...

U.S. millennials are rejecting suburbia and moving back to the city. That was a prevailing idea in 2019, when I started as the social sciences reporter at Science News. But when I began digging into a ...

While the name Jean Giraud may not be well known outside of the comics world, it is not an overstatement to say that it would be impossible to imagine what modern science fiction would look like ...