Transforming the brain tissue to glass would have required an extremely hot and fast-moving ash cloud, lab experiments suggest.

Hundreds of surface swabs reveal the station lacks microbial diversity, an imbalance that has been linked to health issues in other settings.

Some scholars argue that efforts to equalize the time men and women spend on housework has stalled. An analysis reveals slow progress.

New brain-inspired hardware, architectures and algorithms could lead to more efficient, more capable forms of AI.

Thousands of probationary federal employees received termination notices. Many were doing crucial work at science-related agencies.

Some companies claim that taking beneficial bacteria can reduce the desire for sugar. But the evidence comes from mice, not people.

This oldest known evidence of people living in tropical forests supports an idea that human evolution occurred across Africa.

The birds spend most of their lives in the open ocean. Observing birds at sea is nearly impossible, so much about puffins remains a mystery. Ecologists like Erpur Snær Hansen, who leads a team at the ...

Mars may once have held enough water to fill oceans and form coastlines. The planet’s red dust contains water and likely formed in cold conditions.

Borne, science journalist Carl Zimmer roots the “mistake” in the past of a historically neglected field: aerobiology, or the science of airborne life. Zimmer begins his chronicle in the 19th century ...

Archaeologists uncovered a fossilized skull of an ancient sharp-toothed predator that likely hunted early elephants and primates.

Maya Ajmera, President & CEO of Society for Science and Executive Publisher of Science News, chatted with Walter “Ted” Carter Jr., President of The Ohio ...