Your ability to notice what matters visually comes from an ancient brain system over 500 million years old.

For decades, the dream of slowing aging has hovered at the edge of science fiction, more marketing slogan than medical reality. Now a wave of cellular and molecular research is starting to turn that ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Researchers across the United States and the world who raced to protect climate data, ...

Gretchen T. Goldman is the president and chief executive of the Union of Concerned Scientists, based in Washington DC. The scientific community needs to recognize these trends and fight back in every ...

For decades, psychiatrists have told patients that conditions like schizophrenia and severe depression arise from a tangled mix of genes and life experience, with no single culprit to blame. Now ...

Practicing science in the United States has become more politically fraught in the past seven months than it has ever been in this country’s history. As the Trump administration has fired vaccine ...

November 29 is an important day in the history of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It’s also an important day in the history of climate science. You’ve probably heard of the IPCC. It was ...