Kenyan fig trees can literally turn parts of themselves to stone, using microbes to convert internal crystals into ...

I’ve spent much of my long life studying — and trying to understand — the history of the universe. Along the way, I have been constantly reminded that science is essentially international: Science ...

NEW YORK — Willow is a city kid who loves her neighborhood’s tiny “pocket” park, especially the giant tree, Oakie, whose ...

Before the floods came, Camp Mystic’s sprawling 700-acre campground was dotted with green-roofed, cobblestone cabins and rows ...

The entire conceit of Jurassic World revolves around dinosaur blood being the cure for something even more predatory than dinosaurs themselves: heart disease. Because it's so ludicrous that any ...

In a new communications landscape that feasts on polarization, the science community needs to rethink how it engages society ...

Earlier this year, we spotted a forthcoming study which reported that levels of taurine did not consistently decline with age. But we knew Science had published research on this topic in 2023 that ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and ...

Laura Spinney’s “Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global” explores the roots of language and how it spread and changed across time and place.

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) is exploding across many branches of science. Between 2012 and 2022, the average proportion of scientific papers engaging with AI, across 20 fields ...

Over the past 20 years, certain branches of science have endured a so-called reproducibility crisis, in which countless papers have been exposed as shoddy if not bogus.

Tree branches in art throughout history follow geometric rules related to fractal geometry. ‘Almond blossom’ by Vincent van Gogh.