Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the ...

Nicola Dell, a computer scientist studying the role of technology in intimate partner violence, cofounded the Center to End ...

There are hundreds of cell types in the human body, each with a specific role spelled out in their DNA. In theory, all it ...

The outlook has brightened for federal science budgets, but political appointees are likely to have a big say in how that ...

A new analysis of enigmatic skulls from the Republic of Georgia suggest that Homo erectus wasn't the only human species to ...

Mice have remained the focal point for life sciences research for the past several decades. Their universality in biomedicine ...

Under the Biden administration, the EPA found that enforcing the more stringent PM2.5 regulations it issued in 2024 would add ...

For more than 25 years, humans have lived and worked continuously aboard the International Space Station, conducting research ...

Researchers in Japan built a miniature human brain circuit using fused stem-cell–derived organoids, allowing them to watch ...

The Greenland shark can live up to 500 years. The kind of longevity that probably has something to do with its home: cold, ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...

Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in ...