A new study finds that some people just want privacy.

Mice will even run on a wheel in nature. Pheromones help inspire that behavior.

Researchers dramatically improve the accuracy of a number that connects fundamental forces.

Scientists at Washington University are patenting a new electrolyzer designed for frigid Martian water.

Pfizer's vaccine needs to be kept at -100°F until it's administered. Can caregivers deliver?

If you forgot to defrost your turkey, definitely don’t put it in a deep fryer. Every year, households all across the United States face a troubling dilemma with no good solutions: […]

Psychedelic therapy will become legal in Oregon in 2023. That's thanks largely to a renaissance of psychedelic research that's changing attitudes on the substances' medical potential.

Britons could start receiving the vaccine within days.

A clever new design introduces a way to image the vast ocean floor.

How many potentially habitable planets are there? We sincerely don’t know. One of the most compelling scientific goals humanity has set for itself is to find extraterrestrial life: biological activity originating […]

Philosophers have been asking the question for hundreds of years. Now neuroscientists are joining the quest to find out.

Puerto Rico's iconic telescope facilitated important scientific discoveries while inspiring young scientists and the public imagination.

The recent AstraZeneca offers a cautionary tale.

The Google-owned company developed a system that can reliably predict the 3D shapes of proteins.

See the most detailed survey of the southern sky ever carried out using radio waves.

There’s more light than we can account for, and we’ve just measured it robustly for the first time. When we look out at the darkest night skies available on Earth, even […]

A new study shows our planet is much closer to the supermassive black hole at the galaxy's center than previously estimated.

What is human dignity? Here's a primer, told through 200 years of great essays, lectures, and novels.

Apple sold its first iPod in 2001, and six years later it introduced the iPhone, which ushered in a new era of personal technology.

Exceptionally high-quality videos allow scientists to formally introduce a remarkable new comb jelly.