So, "settled science" does not mean we know something with absolute certainty, but that the weight of evidence is heavily in ...

More than two-thirds of suburban high school juniors scored above 50% proficiency in English language arts and nearly half scored above 50% proficiency in mathematics on the ACT college entrance ...

Grace Chan, author of Every Version of You, the November read for the New Scientist Book Club, explores the philosophical ...

There is a phenomenon in some sectors where science is seen as beyond social influence – that scientific fact is inherently ...

A magic trick that nobody wanted: the reappearing gender gap in K-12 students’ science and math scores. Beset by problems and ...

The universe has quasi-moons, mini-moons, and moonlets, but no official definition of what counts as a moon.

On December 19, 2025, 3I/ATLAS will arrive closest to Earth at a separation of 269 million kilometers, when hundreds of ground-based telescopes as well as the Hubble and Webb space telescopes will ...

It is evolutionarily certain that we will have more outbreaks, more pandemics, and frankly, they could be significantly worse ...

Ten years ago, the Paris Agreement transformed the politics of climate change. It did what decades of fragmented diplomacy ...

Underpinned by the principals of basing decisions on sound science, the need to improve public health and avoiding unintended ...

Current laws that deem species safe from extinction ignore their ecological role, geographic range and genetic diversity, as ...

Neither purely pie nor porch prop, the pumpkin haunts the boundary between science and superstition — a gourd so undefinable ...