In 1925, a teacher deliberately broke a law stating that evolution could not be taught in Tennessee classrooms. His trial ...

With the help of methane-munching-microbes, these translucent sea spiders gobble up a potent greenhouse gas to stay alive.

Karmella Haynes doesn’t need to fit in—in life or in work. So when a research space didn’t exist for her, she created it.

July 11, 2025 A century after a teacher went on trial for teaching evolution, the role of science in the classroom and in society remains in contention. Plus, tick seasons are getting worse, raising ...

A passion for fashion among the “bone collector caterpillar,” who wears a coat of body parts, and an artist who makes fabrics that remember.

The color isn’t olo, but it’s a decently close approximation. Credit: Shutterstock Think about the colors of the world around you—the blue of a cloudless sky, the green of a new leaf, the blazing red ...

Focused-mode thinking is essential for studying math and science. It involves a direct approach to solving problems using rational, sequential, analytical approaches. The focused mode is associated ...

How the lost constellations of Indigenous North Americans can connect culture, science, and inspire the next generation of Indigenous scientists.

When the cattle on Wilbur Earl Tennant's farm began to mysteriously fall ill and die, he suspected it wasn't what the animals were eating—it was what they were drinking.

Dry conditions are the worst they’ve been in almost 20 years across the Colorado River watershed, which acts as the drinking and irrigation water supply for 40 million people in the American Southwest ...

The following is an excerpt from Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson. There are many portraits, including Leonardo’s earlier La Belle Ferronnière, in which the subject’s eyes appear to move as the ...

Actually, it does. The story of artificial banana flavoring is, well, bananas.