Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of NPR's Short Wave talk about a comet visiting from interstellar space, caterpillars that eat and break down plastic, and how animals' sense of smell varies by altitude.

Scientists are crucial voices in the public debate about wicked problems—societal-scale, high-stakes issues with no clear ...

People can intuitively sense how biodiverse a forest is just by looking at photos or listening to sounds, and their gut ...

Democrats hosted a protest event featuring ‘things we’ll never know’ because of the US government’s cuts to science.

A set of breakthroughs from scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is ...

One of history’s dark jokes is that the Roman Empire, for all its vaunted accomplishments, only made a single great ...

“It really changes the feelings people have,” Maktoufi stresses. She integrated play and art therapy in her work with children facing terminal illnesses and through grief facilitation in hospice care.

In all his years of medicine, he’s found that being outside is one of the most powerful treatments, and it’s backed with science. “Sunlight is beneficial for your body because of vitamin d development ...

Women in Science According to UIS data, less than 30% of the world’s researchers are women. UIS data also show the extent to which these women work in the public, private or academic sectors, as well ...

Research shows that neurogenesis, collateral sprouting, synaptogenesis, exercise, and an enriched complex housing environment ...