James Riordon is a freelance science writer who covers physics, math and astronomy, and coauthor of the book Ghost Particle – ...

The key to landing your dream job could be connecting with and then sending a single message to a casual acquaintance on social media. That’s the conclusion of a five-year study of over 20 million ...

Daraxonrasib, which nearly doubled patients' survival time, fights the disease in a new way. It bear-hugs a cancer protein that drives cell growth.

Every 20 seconds, a wave of fresh cerebrospinal fluid rolls into the sleeping brain. These slow, rhythmic blasts, described for the first time in the Nov. 1 Science, may help explain why sleep is so ...

Back in July, Russia launched a satellite into space that carried a harem of geckos so scientists could study sex in weightlessness. But bad news came this week with the report that the “sexy space ...

The debate could reopen in 2030 when NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft gets the closest view of the icy moon’s surface.

One of nuclear fusion’s biggest advances wouldn’t have happened without some impeccable scientific artistry. In December 2022, researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California ...

Lab experiments suggest mosquitoes can smell DEET and learn to associate it with food, but it’s unclear whether that happens ...

An ocean current called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation will weaken by 50 percent by 2100. The question is ...

The new test may catch active tuberculosis in those with low access to health care or who have trouble making the phlegm ...

The South Pacific blast may have consumed its own methane — but using this idea against the greenhouse gas is controversial.