Science

This spring, British explorer and chef Mike Keen will spend roughly a month skiing across Greenland with a sled dog.…

For nearly a decade, Vincent Bombail has been tickling rats. It’s been a standard technique used in the study of…

“Make life harder” is a strange rallying cry. Yet in January, journalist Kathryn Jezer-Morton at the Cut went viral for…

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

As public health officials around the world monitor dozens of former passengers and crewmembers of the MV Hondius for signs…

An ancient human molar shows that Neandertals sometimes drilled out infected teeth with stone tools — suggesting they may have…

It’s a bit of a stretch, but the analogy works. Sometimes Earth’s tectonic plates pull apart from one another like…

It’s a game of monkey mean, monkey grew. Territorial tension may be behind the size of male primates. In many…

Around one in 500 women don’t have a functioning womb, needed to carry a pregnancy. This condition, called absolute uterine…

Jazz and Western classical music are now more like pop and rock — at least by one measure. The melodic…