Peter Hotez, a vaccine researcher at Baylor College of Medicine, speaks for many scientists when he says that despite the “apparently good news,” he would keep the champagne corked. “It’s always hard to read the tea leaves of a company press release,” without the underlying data.

Experts continue to emphasize the importance of masks, social distancing and other public health measures

Dining out is one of the riskiest things you can do—but it doesn’t have to be, if you follow these steps.

Government officials said on Wednesday that a mutation in the virus could interfere with vaccine effectiveness in humans.

Death, re-hospitalization, and problems with basic activities, jobs, mental health and finances seen in many patients treated at 38 Michigan hospitals

Mistakes from the past demonstrate the reliability of science.

For almost a century, the anonymous members of Nicolas Bourbaki have written books intended as pure expressions of mathematical thought.

Study looks at why some of us don’t remember things.

Study of Mount Pleasant site suggests it was constructed over decades, not centuries.

Food science writer Harold McGee was in the middle of writing Nose Dive, his book about the science of smell, when he woke up one morning and realized that he couldn't smell his own coffee.

The mean temperature of gas across the Universe has increased more than 10 times over the last 10 billion years and reached about 2 million Kelvin today, according to new research.

Meteorites often offer terrific glimpses into worlds we are unable to otherwise access.  

Nearly 75 years after the puzzling first detection of the kaon, scientists are still looking to the particle for hints of physics beyond their current understanding.

Astrophysicists consider that around 40% of the ordinary matter that makes up stars, planets and galaxies remains undetected, concealed in the form of a hot gas in the complex cosmic web. 

Two teams spot first event in the Milky Way.

Camels have evolved a seemingly counter-intuitive approach to keeping cool while conserving water in a scorching desert environment: They have a thick coat of insulating fur. Applying essentially the same approach, researchers at MIT have now developed a system that could help keep things like pharmaceuticals or fresh produce cool in hot environments, without the need for a power supply.

Dynamic windows could do double duty in sustainable building design, cooling and powering at the same time.

Fickle weather and fluctuating prices make farming a risky business, so five years ago, Knowlton installed a new cash crop: solar energy.

When off-duty, many astronauts float in the cupola watching the vistas scroll below.

International Energy Agency expects green electricity to end coal’s 50-year reign by 2025.

Light exercise does more to boost cognitive function than relaxing for the same amount of time.

Researchers from the University of Oulu studied the differences between early birds and night owls to challenge stereotypes associated with each chronotype.

The 8x8 rule has become a health goal for many. But when it comes to healthy skin, eyes and having bags of energy, the research tells another story

Once you start wearing indoor slippers, you'll never go back.

Itching has myriad causes and mechanisms, many of which remain elusive. Scientists are making headway on parsing its biological underpinnings, in hope of better treatments.

The remains of a giant, ancient lake have been discovered under Greenland, buried deep below the ice sheet in the northwest of the country and estimated to be hundreds of thousands of years old, if not millions, scientists say.

On a tiny stretch of the fast-flowing Valsan river in Romania lives one of the rarest fish in Europe, and quite possibly the world.

Whatever you choose to call them, these monster storms are powerful natural events with the capacity to wreak incredible havoc.

Transmitter attached to dorsal fin of shark with Twitter following had not sent a definitive message for a year and a half.

A form of arcus cloud (along with wall clouds), these striking formations look like a long bar or shelf of cloud below a storm cloud.

Mammals, birds and amphibians worldwide have lost on average 18% of their natural habitat range as a result of changes in land use and climate change, a new study has found. In a worst-case scenario this loss could increase to 23% over the next 80 years.

The iceberg, known as A68a, broke apart from the Antarctic Peninsula in 2017 and has been drifting ever since.

Shellfish such as scallops, mussels and oysters – bivalve molluscs – readily take up tiny specs of metals into their tissues and shells.

Scientists long thought that the ground beneath the northern coasts of Alaska was permanently frozen.

Progress, loopholes and contradictions converge as the world’s most populous country works to lower the odds of another global pandemic.

The first 100 days of the Biden administration are likely to see a flurry of executive actions on climate change.

Dozens of people have died this year as Theta becomes 29th major storm.

Though scientists know that clouds are critical to the climate system, their exact role is still uncertain. New studies are starting to fill in the knowledge gap.

Instead of moving away from areas in climate crisis, Americans are flocking to them. As land in places like Phoenix, Houston and Miami becomes less habitable, the country’s migration patterns will be forced to change.

Tractors, fertilizer, and pesticides all contribute to global warming.