Concern about the health of democratic governments has been rising worldwide, and one of the key metrics researchers use to measure the robustness of a democracy is its ability to conduct free and ...

Two dark matter experiments have spotted signs of neutrinos knocking into atomic nuclei in their detectors. The finding portends a future obstacle for the ...

The podcast ‘Does It Fly?’ asks whether the technology of Star Trek, Doctor Who and other popular sci-fi shows could really work.

The United States’ reputation as an exemplar of democracy appears to be eroding. In a poll taken earlier this year, almost three-quarters of U.S. respondents agreed that the country’s democracy “used ...

Climate change is putting monarch butterflies’ overwintering forests in Mexico at risk. Could planting new forests solve that problem?

Taking in seawater while filtering out dense salts lets unicellular phytoplankton migrate tens of meters vertically toward sunnier seas.

The annual Small World photomicrography competition, now in its 50th year, puts life’s smallest details under the microscope.