What happens when judges allow bad forensic science to enter the court. This is an Inside Science story. According to Senior U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff, at the Southern District of New York, ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Every cloud is lined, not with silver, but with science — at least from cloud expert Alexandria Johnson’s point of view. Clouds are ubiquitous. They are one of the most notable ...

Professor Laura Pereira from the Wits Global Change Institute, who contributed to the report and who is presenting at COP28 says: “Given the lack of mitigation action to date, inadequate climate ...

After a year that feels like it has pushed many of us apart, our selection of the top scientific insights of 2024 are nearly all about how we come together and how we’re interconnected—across time, ...

We are now entering the second quarter of the 21st Century, and, especially in the last years, the achievements made by ...

Nasa has officially declared its ‘InSight’ lander dead, after it stopped communicating with Earth. The lander has been collecting information on the red planet for more than four years. But its ...

(Image courtesy: Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=54652) Towards the end of summer, bowhead whales appear in greater numbers in the ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. On one of the shortest and darkest days of the year, NASA’s ...

My professional life has been devoted to teaching and writing about politics, and I am convinced that political science, the study of government, politics and power, has many insights to offer the ...

What is the path to a happier life and a more compassionate society? We tend to prefer strategies that seem straightforward: To be healthier, we eat healthier; to fight apathy, we urge others to join ...