The age-old ritual of 'touching wood' offers more than just a superstitious gesture. Rooted in ancient pagan and Christian ...

For three decades now, I have watched Earth warm—not through headlines or politics, but in my own data. Every year, the ...

Oftentimes definitions can limit you, imposing unnecessary constraints, enclosing things within the four corners of a narrow, ...

Daniel Whiteson and Andy Warner’s upcoming book is a philosophical exploration of the humanity behind our desire to find ...

It is evolutionarily certain that we will have more outbreaks, more pandemics, and frankly, they could be significantly worse than Covid,” says global health expert Seth Berkley.

NIH-led research on structural racism was published Friday, even as the Trump administration has cancelled and discredited ...

Neither purely pie nor porch prop, the pumpkin haunts the boundary between science and superstition — a gourd so undefinable ...

Grace Chan, author of Every Version of You, the November read for the New Scientist Book Club, explores the philosophical ...

For us, peak fall colors usually happen in mid-October. But as you’ve stepped outside over the past few days, you might have ...

In a suspected case of reverse evolution, wild tomatoes in the Galápagos have developed a defense mechanism that hasn’t been seen in millions of years.

President Trump said Thursday that the U.S. would begin testing nuclear weapons again for the first time in decades. But what would that involve?

Ten years ago, the Paris Agreement transformed the politics of climate change. It did what decades of fragmented diplomacy ...