Science

Small, icy moons might be boiling under their surface. Many moons in the outer solar system are thought to harbor…

The koalas clambering around eucalyptus canopies may be cuddly herbivores, but their extinct relatives were horrifying predators. The charismatic marsupials…

Tiny life-forms with bright colors might point the way to big dinosaur bone discoveries. In the badlands of western Canada,…

Takanori Takebe is on a mission to find out if people can breathe through their butts. As a medical doctor…

Bats beware. The ability to fly won’t save you from hungry, determined rats. In a first, brown rats were filmed…

Nancy Shute is editor in chief of Science News Media Group. Previously, she was an editor at NPR and US…

You are participating in a holiday gift exchange with a few classmates. You each write down your own name on…

Is your face a glazed doughnut or a dewy dumpling? I don’t mean which of these foods are stuck on…

When the United States faced the looming threat of World War II in the 1930s, it bet big on science — and…

New scientific findings come out every day. Often, people only learn about the researchers behind some of these discoveries years…