When UC Berkeley biochemist Jennifer Doudna first began studying how bacteria fight virus infections, she had no idea it ...

A century ago, two oddly domestic puzzles helped set the rules for what modern science treats as "real": a Guinness brewer ...

How did life begin? An international team of researchers from Japan, Malaysia, the UK, and Germany suggest that the answer ...

Explore the definition of 'robot' through the case of Sophie, an AI mannequin, and reflect on human behavior in the digital ...

We’ve all been told we have five senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. But neuroscience says we’re selling ...

What is Science” is the topic of the Central Colorado Humanists Sunday Science program for December 7. Dr. Paul Bendt’s presentation will address the ...

New efforts to shut down honest discussion of Palestine could restrict everything from literature to science classes.

Specifically, physicists and philosophers tend to conflate what it means for something to exist and what it means for ...

Concerted, politicised assaults on scientific knowledge are intensifying. In the USA, the Trump administration is using the proposed Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education policy to ...

This week’s new and recent releases range across cli-fi and espionage drawing on real events to a doctor’s moving account of ...

AS a registered nurse, I am the 201,295th signatory (midnight of Nov. 27) to the growing petition of the nurses of the world, ...

"One Hand Clapping" draws from neuroscience, evolution, philosophy and a rich tapestry of cultural references to examine how ...