Because microbes are always adapting to changes, they could revolutionize how we think of computers—and how computers think.

ORNL researchers developed an AI that links atomic structure to material behaviors, improving efficiency in material science ...

On this week's episode of the Best of Quirks & Quarks with Bob McDonald: a tree that harnesses lightning, how pooping boosts your brain, carnivorous squirrels, and tiny European apes ...

Most of us are aware of the deep problems in the current US pharmaceutical industry. Yet few may realize that today’s issues stem from changes that occurred centuries ago. As I explain in The ...

How did science get started? A few years back, we looked at one answer to that question in the form of a book called The Invention of Science. In it, British historian David Wootton places the origin ...

California’s decade-long push to revolutionize science education through hands-on, inquiry-based learning has yielded little ...

Three years ago Norbert Wiener, professor of mathematics at M.I.T., was a “longhair” who had coined the word “cybernetics”* to wrap up the many-sided science of communication and control devices. Now ...

Jarrett Stepman is a columnist for The Daily Signal. He is also the author of "The War on History: The Conspiracy to Rewrite America's Past." Send an email to Jarrett The Trump administration’s ban on ...

In recent years, social psychology and science overall have been undergoing a "credibility revolution" with a grassroots "open science" movement aiming to promote significant changes to the scientific ...

Last month, the Trump administration abruptly halted construction on a nearly completed $6 billion, 65-turbine wind farm off ...