Star-crossed lovers is one thing. But what if you are allergic to your significant other’s saliva or other bodily fluids?   

Science writing, or the way scientists describe their research, purposefully removes the human element, but this is what readers want most, says career biologist Hope Jahren.

If tattoos had always been as popular as they are today, here is what Charles Darwin, Henry V, Lord Nelson, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama might have inked.

About the ethical and legal issues surrounding post-mortem sperm collection.

Think we’d never do better from the ground than from space? This adaptive optics system is proving this wrong! “This event marks the culmination of many years of hard work on […]

A program called Cultivating Awareness and Resilience in Education helps teachers deal with stress. It also helps them better handle everyday situations in the classroom.

The answer depends on what scales you’re looking at. “The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.” –Swami Vivekananda When it comes to the fundamental laws […]

New research shows the benefits of sixty seconds of high-intensity exercise. While the study is valid, the mentality that a minute is enough is misguided.

Bikeshare has been around for almost 10 years now, but there have never been any deaths. Researchers look into the reasons why.

New research on social relationships looks at how our many friends are divided. It turns out the closest circle of acquaintances is pretty small.

A small animal shuts down CERN's Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest scientific instrument, right before an experiment to detect new particles.

There's been a lot of talk among Republican candidates Ted Cruz and Donald Trump about completing the United States-Mexico border fence. But completing the wall has consequences outside of human politics.

James Brown was the godfather of American soul music, yet despite leaving specific instructions that his estate be used to education poor children, funds remain tied up in South Carolina courts.

It is opening the gates.

What's going on in your gut is affecting your emotions and mental outlook. 

Biocentrism is a theory that sees our lives as a string on unconnected Nows with no real time or death.

Hundreds of years before climate change was a topic of discussion, monks and merchants kept records when lakes and rivers froze-over in the winter. These records show how the Industrial Revolution was a major turning point in altering the Earth's climate.

Bill Nye the Science Guy explains how reinvigorating basic research and development in our schools resulted in the acronym STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math), and why new acronyms are emerging.

There's a strange beauty, yes, but also a violence to Degas' technique. Where did that violence come from?

Think Saturn is the only ringed world? The story is far better than that! “The phenomena of nature, especially those that fall under the inspection of the astronomer, are to be […]