One of the most notable things about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, a ...

For wolves to recover in human-dominated landscapes, humans need to accept a certain level of impact on their lives and some ...

Bite marks discovered on the skeleton of a gladiator in Roman-era England suggest the man faced off with a lion in the arena, ...

Skeletal remains in a Roman burial ground in northern England were found to have lesions that looked suspiciously like bite ...

In its 4.5 billion year history, Earth has undergone five mass extinctions and we are potentially in a sixth era of mass ...

The author of the award-winning classic science fiction novel, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, on the ...

Instead, it has put its faith in a handful of top-notch science facilities like Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) that maintain the nuclear stockpile and test it — without explosions.

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Here’s the astonishing truth about these conscious cells, and why they’re the next great leap in science. Scientists aren’t just exploring consciousness in our bodies—they’re also ...

Heidi J. Larson is chair of the board of the Global Listening Project, a professor of anthropology, risk and decision science in the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Dynamics ...

Japan's Ryukyu Islands, which includes Okinawa, are the exclusive home to two rare mammals, the Amami rabbit and Ryukyu long-furred rat. These animals are hard to observe, but conservationists ...

“I’ve been trying to create the science of magic, which uses [tricks] as a way of exploring the human mind,” Kuhn says. It seems to be working – more than 150 “science of magic” papers ...