Alexis Saffold earned her spot in the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair by turning an everyday problem into a potential breakthrough.

This year’s Abel Prize, an annual lifetime achievement award for mathematics that is bestowed by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and was modeled on the Nobel Prize, has been given to Gerd ...

A quirk of scheduling – or an APS organizer with a dark sense of humour – meant that the two sessions were practically next ...

Researchers and students marked the new film with a panel discussion, hands-on science demos and a shared love of discovery ...

Scientists have found the oldest direct evidence for tectonic motion on Earth by more than half a billion years ...

The history of Earth is written on the great tablets of tectonic plates. The motions of plates shaped land masses, formed ...

Yet even though overpopulation is an issue as dated as Dacron pants or disco, Ehrlich helped give an imprimatur of scholarly authority to a new kind of politics—a politics of scarcity—that has proved ...

Chess is widely seen as a great equalizer. Players from every social, racial, and economic class have squared off across the ...

The actor plays a molecular biologist trying to help save the world in this upbeat science-fiction fantasy from Phil Lord and ...

While this is obvious at home, the connection between pets and wellbeing is becoming more visible in the workplace too. Mars has been a pet-friendly workplace for more than 15 years. In that time, ...

Michigan State University postdoctoral researcher Deepak Bhandari explores the molecular logistics of plant immunity and the role of the cell wall in pathogen resistance.

Andrea Stricker warns U.S. must neutralize Iran's Pickaxe Mountain nuclear site and secure uranium stockpiles before ending ...