As a researcher, I still remember the discomfort I felt every time I had to sacrifice laboratory animals for an experiment.

Researchers found that a majority of studies on coastal sea levels underestimated how high water levels are, and hundreds of millions of people are closer to peril than previously thought.

It's often said that microplastics are everywhere, including in the environment and in living things, and an ever-growing body of research increasingly attests to their ubiquity as a contaminant. On ...

A groundbreaking study involving 4,330 centenarians has uncovered key insights into what contributes to a long life. While genetics and lifestyle factors have long been debated, researchers have ...

Capturing spatial information is essential to elucidate how cells function and interact within their native tissue environment. However, the initial spatial transcriptomics techniques have several ...

The ATLAS theories are all over the map. With 3I/ATLAS slated to fly-by Earth tomorrow, theories over its nature have hit a fever pitch. A new study asserts that our interstellar visitor behaves like ...

As the people who study biology and chemistry and physics increasingly adopt artificial intelligence, we're starting to understand how AI is changing the practice of science itself. New research ...

Rowan and Cedar, two wolf pups at the International Wolf Center in Ely, are outfitted with accelerometers to track their movements for a study exploring early developmental timing in wolves. When it ...

Kaiku Kaholoa’a uses various equipment to conduct dives and take reef samples for testing. He is looking for ones that show a high tolerance to rising temperatures in an effort to help save coral from ...

Scientists are flocking to Iceland to investigate an increasingly crucial question: Will melting glaciers accelerate and intensify earthquakes and volcanic eruptions? William Brangham reports. PBS ...

The deterioration of the Earth’s ozone layer, which protects the planet from harmful radiation, was viewed as an existential threat to humanity for decades. But today, you rarely hear about it. Ever ...