Physicists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign are now testing quantum simulations of these so-called strong-field QED (SFQED) processes, recently translating several processes into the ...

There’s more history in your blood types than you think, and it didn’t begin with humans. Here’s what we know about them, ...

Nathaniel K., age 15, Hamilton, Ohio For most students, science is something you study and something you have to learn. I remember when I was in school, adults were always asking me things like “Do ...

A new study reveals how floral traits and pollinator communities vary geographically in the obligate pollination mutualism between Kadsura longipedunculata and gall midges, supporting the geographic ...

Human societies didn’t just adapt to the planet—they learned to reshape it. From early fire use to today’s global supply ...

New research suggests that the origins of life may be tied not only to deep-sea hydrothermal vents but also to environments ...

Through fossilized tooth enamel, scientists are reconstructing the diets and landscapes that existed millions of years ago.

It’s ancient, unstoppable and strangely contagious. Here’s what science now knows about the humble yawn, and why evolution ...

There’s a theory that many of us have an “inner Neanderthal.” The idea is that Homo sapiens and a cousin species once bred, ...

Are humans natural born runners? Here’s why evolutionary and anatomical evidence suggests running was more central to our ...

Gravity, as most people understand it, is the familiar force that pulls a falling apple toward Earth. But for astronomers and ...

Francis Collins explains why many of history’s greatest scientists believed faith and science could work together.