It has been a comforting refrain in the national conversation about reopening schools: Young children are mostly spared by the…

Will the coronavirus we are now battling cause permanent brain damage? How many of those who recover will be affected…

When the first coronavirus cases in the United States appeared in January, they bore the same genetic signatures as a germ that…

NASA is willing to shell out big bucks to the person who can design a toilet that can function on the moon. …

Radiation sensors in Stockholm have detected higher-than-usual levels of isotopes produced by nuclear fission, probably from somewhere on or near…

Help Beat Boredom and keep all the little scientists in your life engaged.  10 ideas under 10 dollars. The items…

A microscopic and genomic analysis of the creature revealed that, unlike all other known animals, H. salminicola has no mitochondrial…

Look Out for Falling Iguanas.  Yep.  You read that right.  Record low temperatures in Florida are causing Iguanas to fall…

Dogs join cattle, deer, red foxes, coyotes and grey wolves as yet another mammal to have a mechanism of “magnetoreception”. Evidently…

On March 11, 2011 a large section of the seafloor along a fault line 125 km (77 miles) offshore of…