Category science

Humans have become a geologic force by cooking the planet — using fire on a scale that is altering land, water, air and ecosystems.

Despite the health claims surrounding alkaline water, scientific evidence suggests its purported benefits may be overhyped.

Because we haven’t found anything yet, we’ve started to wonder if dark matter might be lighter or heavier than we thought.

Antarctica is melting, and crucial details are beginning to come into focus of exactly how it’s happening.

An ultra-deep image from the National Science Foundation’s Dark Energy Camera reveals a wide variety of galaxies in the unusual Antlia Cluster.

How much do you know about one of the most mysterious places on Earth?

Bats often hang upside down when they sleep instead of sitting right side up or lying down — why?

Think you know everything about Neanderthals? Take our quiz to find out.

A new study shows that large language models make trade-offs to avoid pain, with possible implications for future AI welfare.

Scientists used changes in the supermassive black hole M87*’s accretion disk to infer its orientation, size and turbulence