Across a Swiss meadow and into its forested edges, the drone dragged a jumbo-size cotton swab from a 13-foot tether. Along its path, the moistened swab collected scraps of life: some combination of ...

For scientists, though, one big mystery still remained. Although will-o’-the-wisps are not actual flames and occur at ambient ...

Ecuador’s Amazon region has revealed insects and spider webs trapped in amber that dates back 112 million years. The findings, published in the journalNature Communications Earth & Environment, ...

Lee, has written a new memoir called This is for Everyone. More than 35 years after he built the first website, he reflects ...

There is a whole world inside soil, shaping our everyday existence.“Soil is fundamental to the functioning of Earth,” ...

Measuring The Backlash: How did men react to recent American social movements? 58% feel politicians talk too much about wokeness. 38% felt #MeToo was beneficial to society. 42% felt that the Black ...

The science undergirds the need for policies to cut emissions in order to avert even worse climate impacts. Against the backdrop of these moves to challenge science, the Trump administration and ...

The National Science Foundation will sunset funding for a $20 million artificial intelligence institute designed to improve weather forecasting, a move that could sever a pipeline of scientists from ...

A rough night’s sleep can zap your motivation to pry your butt out of bed for your normally scheduled morning workout. But, hard as it may seem when your covers are beckoning, making time for movement ...

Examining a brain at the Neuropathology Brain Bank at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Manhattan. By Jonathan Corum Photographs by Shuran Huang In July, a gunman in Midtown Manhattan left a note that ...

The cover of "Science Under Siege" and co-authors Peter Hotez and Michael Mann. (Courtesy of PublicAffairs, Peter Hotez, Michael Mann) The new book “Science Under Siege” details the politically and ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Charles Darwin once noted that natural selection tends to preserve traits that conceal an animal in nature. It can paint camouflage onto their bodies with ...