A national student-led effort shows how early-career researchers are engaging Congress on federal science funding amid ...

When the documentary film “Seaspiracy” launched on Netflix in 2021, it quickly generated controversy within scientific communities and among the public at large. Some praised the film documenting ...

Together, the N.I.H. and the N.S.F. had a nearly $60 billion annual budget for funding future breakthroughs in science and ...

With a trunk that produces 110-decibel blasts that can be heard for miles, elephants are well-equipped for long-distance communication. But it turns out they may be letting their feet do some of the ...

From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year ...

In this day and age, on the surface level, it seems like we know a lot about how the world, the human body, and the universe ...

Conservationists continue working to ensure the species doesn’t disappear forever as the whales face ongoing threats in their ...

Educators have been giving much-needed attention recently to innovations in the standard M.B.A. and the undergraduate business curriculum. Most notable has been the integration of fundamental courses ...

The coronavirus outbreak has underscored the prominent role that science news and information can play in public life, and there are signs that Americans are now paying more attention to science news.

This is a free edition of Deep Shtetl, a newsletter about the unexplored intersections of politics, culture, and religion. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. These days, it’s hard to figure out who ...

Call it a galaxy in a bottle. Last month, astronomers in Europe released a three-dimensional map of the Milky Way. It is the most detailed survey ever produced of our home galaxy. It contains the ...

About 375 million years ago, armored fishes ruled a watery world. Known as placoderms, these jawed vertebrates came in all shapes and sizes, from small bottom-dwellers to giant filter-feeders. Some, ...