The great Walt Whitman is often attributed with the saying, “Be curious, not judgmental.” Whether or not he really uttered those words, it’s a powerful reminder to always look at the world with ...

Without science, we’d still be living in caves. We wouldn’t know how to take care of a simple cold or how to travel to space.

The world is full of surprising facts about the Earth and how we interact with it, even when we don’t understand or appreciate what happens around us. We use a bit of science to sort out the millions ...

A lot of people write about what they see, but scientists have a uniquely effective way to observe the world and develop ...

You would think that in this day and age, with the collective knowledge of humankind easily accessible via the internet, people would be more factual and objective. And yet, there are lots of folks ...

Science, once defined by human-led experiments, hypotheses, and trial and error, is being transformed by artificial intelligence. Today, AI-generated insights often take center stage, leading ...

Almost all marine mammals are carnivores: Think orcas, whales, dolphins, and even walruses and otters. Even baleen whales eat ...

A Colorado charter school quickly backed down from teaching creationism to eighth graders, but the incident illustrates that a lot of the public, and some people within public schools, ...

There’s a shocking lack of understanding of the physics underlying this commonplace phenomenon, but researchers are on the case.

Every year on March 14, people around the world celebrate Pi Day, a day dedicated to the mathematical constant π (pi) ...

We all know dinosaurs were scary. Tyrannosaurus rex was one of the largest land carnivores of all time, weighing between 11,000 and 15,500 pounds, the equivalent of almost three adult African ...