Scientists question whether alarming reports of plastic particles in human organs are accurate or the result of laboratory contamination.

Microplastics are bad for us. But scientists are still figuring out the rest of the story.

Sometimes papers are published that overturn the conventional wisdom. Other times papers are retracted since what they purported to be true turned out to be false. Such is also the case in the climate ...

Scientists from the California Academy of Sciences described 72 new species last year, from elegant birds to strange sea ...

Nora Meyers Sackett says New Mexico’s small, intertwined tech ecosystem can sometimes suffer from siloing itself. But she hopes a newly released roadmap highlighting the state’s advancements from ...

Here in the northern hemisphere, January always feels like the longest, drabbest month of the year, so how lucky we are to have a host of new science books to enliven our days. This month, we can ...