Science is essential as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency carries out its mission to protect human health and the ...

What if we spend decades building advanced telescopes to search for life on other planets and come up emptyhanded? A recent study exploring what we can learn about life in the universe -- even if we ...

Are we alone? Scientists investigate the rarity of life on Earth-like planets with groundbreaking telescopes and methods.

A better understanding of insects could help better protect them Despite general indifference, studies continue to draw alarming conclusions about the dramatic collapse of insect populations in Europe ...

What if humanity's search for life on other planets returns no hits? A team of researchers led by Dr. Daniel Angerhausen, a ...

What if we spend decades building advanced telescopes to search for life on other planets and come up emptyhanded?

Scientists should experiment with creative ways of communicating their work to inspire action to protect the natural world, researchers say.

For a long time, the Kakeya conjecture, which involves rotating an infinitely narrow needle, kept mathematicians ...

Researchers from chemistry, biology, and medicine are increasingly turning to AI models to develop new hypotheses. However, it is often unclear on which basis the algorithms come to their conclusions ...

We have been living in the information age for some time, so long now that on one hand, the internet feels like an old hat, ...

Amid mounting global health concerns about PFAS, communities living along the waterway must grapple with how contamination is ...

Scientific experiments run today are based on research practices that evolved out of a British tea-tasting experiment in the ...