Nearly 4,000 m beneath the Pacific, in water so dark that sunlight has never penetrated, scientists have stumbled on a new way that oxygen can appear where it should not exist. The finding, quickly ...

Google’s marketing makes the transition to Qi2 sound like a free upgrade. It isn’t. To actually get the experience Google ...

A major evolutionary theory says most genetic changes don’t really matter, but new evidence suggests that’s not true. Researchers found that helpful mutations happen surprisingly often. The twist is ...

History shows we often dismiss what we don’t yet understand. Here’s why stigmatizing today’s uncomfortable questions may be holding humanity back.

Plastics are not inert: they gradually break into fragments over time, forming micro- and then nanoplastics (i.e., particles ...

Taken together, Trump’s second-term science policy reflects several emerging trends in U.S. research policy: the public’s growing distrust of higher education, the private sector’s accelerating ...

A mysterious cloud of ultra-hot dust around Kappa Tucanae A may finally have an explanation: a hidden companion star. The ...

Researchers found a chasm between the health reasons for which the public seeks out cannabis and what gold-standard science actually shows about its effectiveness. By Jan Hoffman To treat their pain, ...

Hundreds of people stand outside along the tidal basin in Washington, DC, with many people holding protest signs, including one that says “Fund Don’t Freeze.” Protesters gather on the National Mall in ...

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. Emory is the data editor at STAT. He’s a data journalist with a ...

From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year Joe Spring, ...

The chair of a federal vaccine advisory committee, himself a well-known vaccine critic, will be moving to an official role within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the agency ...