Poison dart frogs have fascinated researchers. Now their toxin has allegedly been linked to the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

Mars has long tempted scientists with hints of chemistry that might once have supported life. Now a NASA-led study argues ...

Research findings are available online in the Astrophysical Journal. The original story “ Student made cosmic dust in the lab revealing life’s early chemical origins ” is published in The Brighter ...

Baker’s yeast isn’t just useful in the kitchen — it may also be built for space. Researchers found that yeast cells can ...

Jeffrey Epstein aggressively sought access to publishers, mentions of Scientific American and other media in Department of Justice files show ...

The National Institutes of Health failed to protect brain scans that an international group of fringe researchers used to argue for the intellectual superiority of white people. Credit...Ben Denzer ...

This Pew Research Center report looks at Americans’ views on scientists and scientific research. Why did we do this? Pew Research Center does research to help the public, media and decision-makers ...

A Columbia University public health instructor ranted to 400 incoming students about how the school’s prominent Jewish donors only made their gifts to “launder blood money” and denied the existence of ...

WASHINGTON — The search for past or present life should be the top science objective of future human missions to Mars, a new National Academies report concludes. The report, A Science Strategy for the ...

WASHINGTON — A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine identifies the highest priority science objectives for the first human mission to Mars, and says searching ...

As humanity prepares to take its first steps on Mars, a comprehensive report released by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and steered by scientists at Penn State lays out ...

Jennifer Wang didn’t know what to think when she was told to expect big news. She and her fellow medical laboratory science students at the University of Washington were not given many details — just ...