November 4, 2024 • How did life start on Earth? The answer is a big scientific mystery scientists are actively investigating. After talking with many scientists, host Regina G. Barber found that ...

We cover the spread of Marburg virus, a stem cell treatment for diabetes and the way dolphins smile in this week’s news roundup.

For almost a century, Science News journalists have covered advances in science, medicine and technology for the general public, including the 1925 Scopes “monkey” trial, the advent of the ...

Scientists and journalists share a core belief in questioning, observing and verifying to reach the truth. Science News reports on crucial research and discovery across science disciplines. We ...

The annual toxic smog that forms over swathes of India and Pakistan is preventable, but the nations’ scientists have too little opportunity to help tackle the problem.

WASHINGTON (AP) — As if the largest bug to ever live – a monster nearly 9 feet long with several dozen legs – wasn’t terrifying enough, scientists could only just imagine what the extinct ...

Environmental science explores our planet and how we are changing it. From climate change and the biodiversity crisis to habitat destruction and pollution, humanity is grappling with many ...

A crop scientist who grew up in Nigeria is working with hundreds of researchers and thousands of farmers to improve crop productivity and food security in Africa. There are an estimated 33 million ...

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics went to two scientists, John J Hopfield and Geoffrey E Hinton, for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural ...