In the sport, players take turns hitting a squishy ball off four walls, trying to return it before it bounces twice. But when a perfect “nick shot” is executed, the ball strikes a sweet spot between ...

People who are uninsured or part of a minority racial or ethnic group are underscreened for cervical cancer. Mailing them a self-sample kit may help.

Two bits of amber discovered in a lab basement hold ancient evidence of a fungi famous for controlling the minds of its victims.

Inside your skull, your brain hums along with its own unique pattern of activity, a neural fingerprint that’s yours and yours alone. A heavy dose of psilocybin temporarily wipes the prints clean.

The Proba-3 spacecraft succeed at creating solar eclipses, kicking off a two-year mission to study the sun’s mysterious outer atmosphere, the corona.

These are the first public images collected by the Chile-based observatory, which will begin a decade-long survey of the southern sky later this year.

The whales use quick body movements to tear pieces of bull kelp for use as tools, perhaps the first known toolmaking by a marine mammal.

Humans have driven sharks and their cousins to the brink of extinction. The health of the entire ocean is at stake.

Alix Morris’s new book, A Year with the Seals, explores humans’ complicated relationship with these controversial marine mammals.

Kelly Benoit-Bird is Senior Scientist and Science Chair at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) and an alumna of the 1994 International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), a program ...

Nutrition experts say add more greens and beans to your diet; cooking classes can teach people to make these nutrient-dense foods taste delicious.

John Scopes was indicted for teaching evolution. Science News looks at the forces that led to the trial and how expertise was the big loser.