Humans drove wolves nearly to extinction in the American West. Reintroducing them in 1995 was, and still is, controversial.

In the wake of funding cuts to mRNA vaccine research, we revisit a February story about a promising vaccine for pancreatic ...

Astronomers found a supernova whose lighter outer layers had been stripped away, revealing an inner shell rich in silicon and sulfur.

The FDA and HHS plan to eliminate petroleum-based food dyes as part of the MAHA agenda. What does science say about their effects on health?

Science journalist Tom Zeller Jr. has suffered from debilitating cluster headaches for three decades. Like other cluster ...

Neurologist Bruce Dobkin started hearing a phantom choir singing on a loop after he received a cochlear implant. He’s not the ...

In July 1925, physicist Werner Heisenberg wrote a letter to Wolfgang Pauli sharing his new ideas about what would eventually become known as quantum theory. A hundred years later, that theory has been ...

“Solar and wind power are almost too cheap for our economy,” says author Bill McKibben, arguing the switch from fossil fuels must happen soon.

Chad Orzel is the Gordon Gould Professor and Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Union College in Schenectady, New York, and the author of five books explaining science for ...

Asa Bradman is an expert in exposure assessment and epidemiology focusing on occupational and environmental exposures to pregnant women, children, and farmworkers living in agricultural communities.

Heath Druzin is the host and creator of Howl, a podcast looking at the controversial decision to bring wolves to the West on the 30th anniversary of reintroduction. He reported the podcast and written ...