The James Webb telescope is allowing astronomers to time-travel into our deep, dark past
Pat Bouchard wants to make sure each and every species of Coleoptera is properly identified
After Judy Peterson’s daughter disappeared 27 years ago, she poured herself into a campaign to create the more integrated, country-wide DNA database. Here’s how it led to a Quebec mother finding her son.
The legendary scientist turned to highly experimental deep brain stimulation to treat his own alcoholism. He’d devoted his whole life to science, he joked. Why not his brain, too? The research he took part in is revolutionizing how we treat the world’s most stigmatized illnesses.
One of the world’s most famous marine ecologists dials back his doomsday predictions and tries optimism
A discovery that shows life 90 million years ago near the South Pole may also point to what lies ahead
Inspired by Star Trek to pursue astronomy, 26-year-old Michelle Kunimoto is one of the whip-smart young scientists who just might help us find the first evidence of extraterrestrial life
Climate change patterns show wine-growing regions will become inhospitable to many varieties of grapes
Diaries show the disastrous extent of the ‘Anne of Green Gables’ author’s addiction to prescription drugs, as well as parallels to our modern-day opioid crisis
New cases of HIV are rising dramatically in Canada. And self-testing kits are nearly as easy to use as a home pregnancy test.
After decades of experimentation, billions of dollars in investment across the globe and gut-wrenching uncertainty about whether it was even physically possible, we’ve proven a quantum computer can work
The detailed field journals, lost for decades, now reveal today’s salmon stocks are in dramatically worse shape than imagined