Frances Glessner Lee at work on a dollhouse crime scene reconstruction. Frances Glessner Lee discovered her true calling later in life. An heiress without formal schooling, she was in her 50s when she ...

The latest research fraud scandal concerns one Eliezer Masliah. He’s one of the world’s leading researchers into Alzheimer’s and it looks as if he fabricated a good deal of his data. A large part of ...

Quick Take The Audubon Christmas Bird Count helps conservationists and scientists understand how many birds are in any given ...

Faith once filled the gaps where science had no voice. Over millennia, those beliefs became the backbone of cultures and laws. But as knowledge expands, certain long-held ideas struggle to keep pace ...

A new and nearly complete skull of Vegavis iaai discovered in Antarctica suggests that modern birds originated before the end-Cretaceous mass extinction. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

In a re-evaluation of Hockett's foundational features that have long dominated linguistic theory—concepts like "arbitrariness," "duality of patterning," and "displacement"—an international team of ...

Mendel’s monastery garden experiments went largely unnoticed during his life, but their implications would ripple through ...