Science

New research shakes up the premise that implants and other long-acting contraception methods are far and away the most effective…

Neandertal babies seem to have started life much the same as modern humans, then grew a lot faster. The idea…

There might be a way to geoengineer El Niño so that it wreaks less havoc, scientists say. Adding aerosols to…

AI technology was supposed to streamline scientific peer review. Instead, it’s proving easy to fool.For roughly a decade, new research…

The powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl can kill with one use. Yet a sizable percentage of adolescents aren’t aware of this…

People will spend $100 to learn about their genetic ancestry. Some pay even more to learn about their dog’s genes.…

Senior physics writer Emily Conover has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago. She is a two-time winner…

Long ago on the Indonesian island of Flores, Komodo dragons ate first, ripping into the flesh of cow-sized elephant kin…

Daring tree climbers and researchers have challenged a major assumption in tree drought biology.  In rainforests on the Southeast Asian…

A bear might seem like the scariest thing you could run into in a national park. But a new study…