This past April was 1.51 degrees Celsius hotter than the preindustrial average, continuing a now nearly 2-year-old trend. BRUSSELS — Last month was the world’s second-warmest April on record ...

The NASA livestream had just confirmed the wheeled robot was alive and well and ready to start doing science! We cheered and hugged and imagined a future where our solar system would be full of ...

In the course of reporting this series on the impact of artificial intelligence on science and math, Quanta writers interviewed close to 100 experts — computer scientists, biologists, physicists, ...

Scientists say it's the earliest galaxy seen doing this (so far). Astronomers have caught an immensely ancient galaxy piercing the veil of darkness that shrouded the early universe. It's ...

Getting it on on the regular appears to be a massive safeguard against the blues — and scientists say they've calculated the exact number of times per year you should be doing it. In a new paper ...

Thales of Miletus (considered to be the first scientist in the Western world) pondered on the cause of static electricity, and the electric prowess of eels inspired Alessandro Volta to invent the ...

By Christina Jewett Federal health officials have reversed the decision to fire a few dozen scientists at the Food and Drug Administration’s food-safety labs, and say they are conducting a ...

He covers federal public health agencies. The head of the Food and Drug Administration has repeatedly claimed in recent interviews that no scientists have been laid off at his agency, but one of ...

That tradition is under threat in ways it has never been before as Donald Trump’s administration engages in the mass firing of scientists in the federal government, cuts funding to scientific ...

On March 28, FBI agents raided two homes belonging to Xiaofeng Wang, a computer-science professor at Indiana University Bloomington. Hours later, the university fired him without explanation.

Scientists recently announced they have discovered a new, never-before-seen color called olo—but most of us still won’t be seeing it anytime soon. Last Friday, a team of researchers published ...

The Australian National University is facing allegations of bullying by members of the executive after a world-renowned scientist was terminated from a director’s role within the institution.