The podcast ‘Does It Fly?’ asks whether the technology of Star Trek, Doctor Who and other popular sci-fi shows could really work.
Political scientists disagree over how to interpret a slight dip in the health of U.S. democracy.
Nations established territorial claims underground to access oil and gas. Now they are expanding those claims upward to snag the wind.
African researchers are using Drosophila melanogaster fruit flies to advance studies of genetics, biomedicine, developmental biology, toxicology and more.
In the book ‘Night Magic,’ Leigh Ann Henion writes of encounters with salamanders, bats, glowworms and other life-forms nurtured by darkness.
The world is awash in information. Communications researcher Yotam Ophir digs into news articles and survey results to show how beliefs form and spread.
For the ninth year, Science News honors researchers in its SN 10: Scientists to Watch list.
AI might help lift conspiracy theorists out of the rabbit hole, but some researchers say proceed with caution.
ChatGPT and similar AI sort those who use African American English dialect into less prestigious jobs and dole out harsher criminal punishments.
