These fascinating science facts prove that reality is often stranger—and a lot more interesting—than fiction These ...

Scientists recently announced they had found potential signs of life on a planet 124 light years from Earth. While the bold claim has been challenged, the mere prospect is enough to inflame a ...

Does a video clip show new footage of the Comet 3I/ATLAS? No, that's not true: This video did not originate from any research ...

A general view of a vial containing the monkeypox vaccine. (Hollie Adams/Getty Images) Elections have consequences. So do Senate confirmations. Never has that been clearer than a recent warning from ...

In 2021 a multidisciplinary team of researchers claimed that a Tunguska-sized airburst, larger than any such airburst in human history, destroyed a Bronze Age city near the Dead Sea. The story went ...

Social scientists have long studied how children develop a sense of trust in others and how they judge whether someone they are talking to is telling the truth. Less attention has been devoted to how ...

The Trump administration’s proposal to roll back the endangerment finding includes many misleading and inaccurate claims. The Trump administration’s proposal Tuesday to revoke the so-called ...

Aaron E. Carroll, a pediatrician, is president and CEO of AcademyHealth, a nonpartisan group that advances evidence-based health policy. The Trump administration’s 2025 budget proposed slashing the ...