Researchers warn that halting federal contracts for mRNA vaccine research could weaken pandemic preparedness and slow medical advances.

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Infrared cameras in Costa Rica revealed that the world’s largest carnivorous bat maintains close social bonds through wing wraps and prey sharing.

Continuous glucose monitors are now readily available. With guidance, they can help people make small dietary and lifestyle changes for better health.

Over the last half 50 years, fractals have challenged ideas about geometry and pushed math, science and technology into unexpected areas.

Human mammary glands contain sugars that avian influenza can latch onto to infect cells, researchers report August 8 at medRxiv.org. The finding, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, raises the ...

The Shape of Wonder humanizes scientists by demystifying the scientific process and showing the personal side of researchers.

At an average age of 70, these women divers in South Korea still forage in the sea up to 10 hours a day and spend more than half of that time underwater.

In-flight defecation may help the birds stay away from feces that can contain pathogens such as bird flu while also fertilizing the ocean.

Adding a magnet could simplify the process of producing oxygen in space, making a crewed mission to Mars more feasible.

Maya Ajmera, President & CEO of Society for Science and Executive Publisher of Science News, chatted with Eric Sporkin. Sporkin is an alumnus of the 2007 International Science and Engineering Fair ...

A Kenyan site shows early hominids transported stone 13 kilometers for toolmaking as early as 2.6 million years ago.