Earth’s tilt is what causes the seasons; in the summer, when our planet’s pole is tipped toward the sun, the days are longer, ...

Science communicator Hank Green explains how our species’ unique intelligence got us into this climate mess—and how it will ...

Layoffs and funding freezes have gutted the CDC’s response to the opioid crisis—just as harm reduction was beginning to work ...

Nearly 600 employees left the National Weather Service or were fired in recent months. Meteorologists say 125 expected new ...

White House Budget Plan Would Devastate U.S. Space Science Scientists are rallying to reverse ruinous proposed cuts to both ...

Scientists have captured the first videos of wild roundworms forming living, wriggling towers that behave as one big superorganism ...

Surveys show that how nuclear strike options are presented strongly influences the decision a president may make ...

A 40-year-old conjecture on shapes’ cross sections is finally proven ...

The velvet worm, a squishy little predator that looks like the stretch-limo version of a caterpillar, has a whimsical MO: it ...

Government layoffs threaten to make it easier for the Trump administration to ditch draft heat safety regulations ...

NASA has quietly taken steps to prepare for a death in space. We need to ask how nations will deal with this inevitability ...

Neuroscientists can now make precise genetic tweaks to the neurons that are most affected by brain diseases such as Parkinson ...