Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.

Chemistry students are taught that some molecular shapes are so strained they simply cannot exist. For about 100 years, one ...

Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the ...

Readers respond to a guest essay about the methods and reliability of science. Also: Opioid addiction; judges and presidents; ...

AI accelerates analysis but lacks grounded, contextual insight; scientists must balance human creativity, ethics, oversight.

Awe-inspiring science reporting, technology news, and DIY projects. Skunks to space robots, primates to climates. That's ...

Researchers have discovered a hidden quantum geometry inside materials that subtly steers electrons, echoing how gravity ...

The National Institutes of Health failed to protect brain scans that an international group of fringe researchers used to ...

In a rebuff of the Trump administration’s proposal to drastically cut funding for federal science agencies, the Senate voted on Thursday to provide billions more to NOAA, NASA and the National Science ...

Democrats continue to be more likely than Republicans to say science has had a mostly positive effect on society.