In its 4.5 billion year history, Earth has undergone five mass extinctions and we are potentially in a sixth era of mass death. Today’s crocodylians are the surviving members of a lineage called ...

When two materials come into contact, charged entities on their surfaces get a little nudge. This is how rubbing a balloon on ...

Platforms such as iNaturalist and eBird encourage people to observe and document nature, but how accurate is the ecological ...

The researchers found that popular twenty-first-century papers on topics such as artificial intelligence (AI), scientific software and methods to improve the quality of research dominate today’s ...

A Nature analysis reveals the 25 highest-cited papers published this century and explores why they are breaking records.

Pushing the limits of structured light, applied physicists report a new type of optical vortex beam that not only twists as it travels but also changes in different parts at different rates to create ...

Spending cuts and directives questioning the reality and urgency of climate change have marked quick shifts in U.S. science ...

Quasicrystals are intriguing materials with long-range atomic order that lack periodicity. It has been a longstanding ...

In a massive scientific effort, hundreds of researchers have helped to map the connections between hundreds of thousands of neurons in the mouse brain and then overlayed their firing patterns in ...

How neoliberals fell in love with “human nature”—the glue that still unites the divergent factions of the new right.

What if meditation and psychedelics together held the key to healing? This powerful pairing is reshaping mental health and ...

According to the release, the ancient lake likely reached its largest size around 8,000 years ago during a time of heavy rainfall known as the “Green Arabia” period. Researchers believe that, at one ...