What everyone agrees on is that NASA needs a new spacecraft capable of relaying communications from Mars to Earth. This issue ...

A 2022 award winner of the National Academies’ Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications, J.D. Allen discusses his civic science media framework, his nuclear energy ...

Answer : A 2024 comprehensive meta-analysis of the econometric literature on the effectiveness of lockdowns to stop disease spread by Danish, Swedish and American authors find little evidence of ...

How many tiny pieces of plastic are currently inside your body? A series of headline-grabbing studies in the last few years ...

I t is a truth universally acknowledged that an explosion is “a kind of collision.” OK, so maybe it’s a truth universally acknowledged only by physicists. But it’s definitely a truth, right? I mean, ...

The UK just announced the launch of a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the risks and benefits of puberty-blocking drugs for minors experiencing gender distress. The trial announcement came just ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Intermittent fasting devotees have mixed opinions on the best schedule for fasting windows, whether in ...

Durupınar Formation near Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey. Credit: Mfikretyilmaz / CC BY 3.0 Pottery fragments discovered near Mount Ararat have once again drawn scientific attention to one of the world ...

A newly analyzed set of images from the Hubble Space Telescope has intensified scientific debate over 3I/ATLAS, a rare interstellar object that passed through the solar system late last year, with ...

Long before humans appeared, an enormous prehistoric ape dominated its environment with a size and strength that still challenge modern understanding. Fossil evidence suggests this giant lived ...