John Ioannidis, the leader of the metascience discipline that researches the causes of the scientific irreproducibility ...

Regal jumping spiders train themselves from a young age to become masterful hunters. From the day they leave mom’s silk nest, the tiny spiderlings practice, practice, practice, u ...

Unlike in fiction, giant whales do not emerge fully-formed from the ocean deep. So, where did Livyatan melvillei come from? How did such a large predator live? And what caused the titan ...

In the 1990s, an entire city in the Caribbean vanished under ash. Plymouth, Montserrat, once vibrant, now lies frozen in time—buried by a volcano still simmering beneath the surf ...

We are deeply disturbed that the White House Office of Management and Budget is contemplating cutting NASA’s science budget ...

There are a seemingly endless number of quantum states that describe quantum matter and the strange phenomena that emerge ...

For the first time, wild chimpanzees have been pictured eating and sharing fruit containing alcohol. A research team led by ...

Capitalizing on the flexibility of tiny cells inside the body’s smallest blood vessels may be a powerful spinal cord repair strategy, new research suggests. In mouse experiments, scientists intr ...

Visit ancient Mars—a surprisingly temperate planet where snow or rain falls from the sky, and rivers rush down valleys to feed hundreds of lakes. A new study from geologists at the University of ...

For scientists who want to learn about the geological history of a planet, river deltas are a great place to start. Deltas ...

In an editorial in the American Journal of Public Health, a team led by researchers from the CUNY Graduate School of Public ...

Three consecutive years of drought contributed to the ‘Barbarian Conspiracy’, a pivotal moment in the history of Roman ...