Science

Babies are born with a natural preference for using their left or right side. Now, a new study suggests that…

A pair of newly discovered planets are the puffiest planets ever seen. The planets are each about the size of…

Lost in CuriosityRoberta KwokSourcebooks, $27.99 Earning my Ph.D. was probably the hardest thing I’ve ever done, and I distinctly remember…

Terrestrial planets experience landslides in spades, and so do some moons, asteroids and comets. But — until now — they’ve…

Soviet scientists in the 1930s knew what could happen if they bucked the party line: denunciation, firing and banishment from…

It’s not easy living the high life. Take it from the Andean leaf-eared mouse, Earth’s highest-dwelling mammal. To tolerate the…

New research shakes up the premise that implants and other long-acting contraception methods are far and away the most effective…

Neandertal babies seem to have started life much the same as modern humans, then grew a lot faster. The idea…

There might be a way to geoengineer El Niño so that it wreaks less havoc, scientists say. Adding aerosols to…

AI technology was supposed to streamline scientific peer review. Instead, it’s proving easy to fool.For roughly a decade, new research…

People will spend $100 to learn about their genetic ancestry. Some pay even more to learn about their dog’s genes.…

The powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl can kill with one use. Yet a sizable percentage of adolescents aren’t aware of this…