On the same day George Floyd was murdered by a police officer on a Minneapolis street — Memorial Day, 2020 — Christian Cooper was searching for...
Free-floating planets — dark, isolated orbs roaming the universe unfettered to any host star — don’t just pop into existence in the middle of cosmic nowhere....
The ability of technology to solve global problems is often overhyped. But when it comes to saving the world from asteroid strikes, lines of code may...
A Statistic That Sums It Up: 15 percent. That’s the median weight loss experienced by people who take Wegovy, a drug from Novo Nordisk. The new...
One summer evening as the sun sank behind the Dnipro River, the mammoth waterway that bisects Ukraine, Anatolii Volkov walked along a river beach, head down....
After the state sterilized thousands of Californians without their consent, lawmakers offered reparations in 2021 by creating the Forced or Involuntary Sterilization Compensation Program. But if...
Christopher Mah, a biologist at the Smithsonian, was scouring the shelves of the museum for deep-sea starfish when he had an idea: Why not see if...
Background: A long, strange trip through the solar system Voyager 2 launched to space on Aug. 20, 1977, to take a tour of our solar system’s...
The American Academy of Pediatrics backed gender-related treatments for children on Thursday, reaffirming its position from 2018 on a medical approach that has since been banned...
Vivian Rhodes figured she would eventually have sex. She was raised in a Christian household in Washington state and thought sex before marriage would be the...
