The government has funded science and then largely left well enough alone. Scientific agencies have been staffed by ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Long before the current political divide over climate change, and even before the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865), an American scientist named Eunice Foote documented the underlying ...

The military exposed thousands of servicemen to radioactivity when it called them to participate in nuclear weapons tests, including Operation Teapot in 1955. One was Eldridge Jones, who later ...

A new study highlights how life possibly evolved prior to and during the rise of Earth’s oxygenated atmosphere.

It’s fitting, then, that the first general-purpose electronic computer, ENIAC, or Electronic Numerical Integrator and ...

In the quantum realm, the past, present, and future blur into a boundless structure. But consciousness may operate on a plane ...

In the first episode of The Deep End Podcast, we meet Jon Nelson, who shares why he volunteered to get brain implants for his relentless depression.

USAID funding worth $70 million for environment and conservation projects in Colombia has been frozen. This decision follows President Trump's remarks about USAID being 'incompetent and corrupt.' The ...

USAID's $70 million funding for Colombia's environmental projects is halted amid organizational changes by President Trump, ...

(THE CONVERSATION) As research into psychedelics and their medical uses makes a comeback, scientists are having to deal with the legacy – both scientific and social – of a 40-year nearly total freeze ...

Tyrone Laws is one of the people dedicated to making sure stories of the Jersey Shore's pioneering Black scientists do not disappear forever.

New research at NAU looks at faster warming in the Arctic, and highlights concern about risks to the U.S. of a political ...