Humans drove wolves nearly to extinction in the American West. Reintroducing them in 1995 was, and still is, controversial.

Humans drove wolves nearly to extinction in the American West. Reintroducing them in 1995 was, and still is, controversial.

The FDA and HHS plan to eliminate petroleum-based food dyes as part of the MAHA agenda. What does science say about their effects on health?

Astronomers found a supernova whose lighter outer layers had been stripped away, revealing an inner shell rich in silicon and sulfur.

RFK Jr. canceled nearly $500 million in mRNA vaccine research funding. Plus, the latest climate news, from flooding in Alaska ...

Science journalist Tom Zeller Jr. has suffered from debilitating cluster headaches for three decades. Like other cluster ...

Neurologist Bruce Dobkin started hearing a phantom choir singing on a loop after he received a cochlear implant. He’s not the ...

In July 1925, physicist Werner Heisenberg wrote a letter to Wolfgang Pauli sharing his new ideas about what would eventually become known as quantum theory. A hundred years later, that theory has been ...

When ticks bite us, they release thousands of proteins through their saliva. Could a vaccine for the right ones stop ticks from latching on?

August 15, 2025 This year marks the 100th anniversary of two papers that sparked the field of quantum mechanics. Plus, a science journalist documents his quest to understand his own cluster headaches ...

The late James Lovell was commander of the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission. In 1995, he recounted the story of the real-life ...

But a new breakthrough points to lithium as a possible explanation—not only does it occur naturally in the brain, but a ...