Corals live in oceans around the world—in shallow, warm waters and deep, cool waters, clinging to seamounts or sitting on continental shelves. They also grow in the home aquariums of countless ...

A few months before my youngest child graduated high school, a couple of hawks built a nest in a big magnolia tree near our house. For several weeks, the birds swooped through the yard. Sometimes they ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - From the rumble of volcanoes to cracks of thunder, Earth has always been noisy. Separating noise from signal is key in many scientific fields, but where do you go to get away ...

The second Artemis mission took four astronauts around the moon and back — the first crewed deep-space flight since 1972. Not everyone gets a chance to put on a space suit, but you can still be an ...

Across the globe, citizen scientists are lending their eyes, hands, and curiosity to research. In some of these efforts, volunteers play the role of colorful creatures to study social behavior and ...

Conducting research is hard; confirming the results is, too. And artificial intelligence isn’t yet ready to help, a major new study finds. By Carl Zimmer Carl Zimmer has reported on replication in ...

Andy Weir, perhaps best-known for his now-classic science fiction book-turned-movie The Martian, has produced another fantastical and deeply science-based book in Project Hail Mary. This book, which ...

Last week, Imperial College London, in collaboration with Nature, hosted a conference on a subject that’s rarely talked about in science: failure. The success of a conference on failure didn’t go ...