Museum experts are exploring how to bring the science dioramas of yore into the 21st century, while ensuring scientific accuracy and acknowledging past ...

Many scientists say “subcritical” experiments and computer simulations make nuclear weapons testing unnecessary.

Scientists created transgenic mice with woolly mammoth–like traits. But does it really bring us closer to bringing back woolly mammoths?

Editor in chief Nancy Shute traces the history of nuclear weapons, from the first sustained nuclear reaction in 1942 to the renewed interest in explosive tests today.

The magnitude 7.7 earthquake was powerful, shallow and in a heavily populated region with vulnerable buildings.

Majorana qubits could be error resistant. But after a contentious talk at the Global Physics Summit, scientists aren’t convinced Microsoft has them.

In a small study, mice given fecal transplants from elite cyclists and soccer players had higher levels of glycogen, a key energy source.

Engineers are exploring propulsion methods that could enable longer-distance travel ...

The clicking of flattened teeth, discovered by accident, could be “the first documented case of deliberate sound production in sharks,” evolutionary biologist Carolin Nieder, of Woods Hole ...

As 23andMe prepares to be sold, Science News spoke with two experts about what’s at stake and whether consumers should delete their genetic data.

GS-z13-1, marks the earliest sign yet spotted of the era of cosmic reionization at 330 million years after the Big Bang.

Carbon credits sold on the voluntary market are under scrutiny for not offsetting greenhouse gas emissions as claimed.