New movie The Substance showcases how women are thought about in terms of youth and fertility. That idea makes for bad research and health guidance.

Water, a molecule essential for life, has unusual properties -- known as anomalies -- that define its behavior. However, there are still many enigmas about the molecular mechanisms that would explain ...

President-elect Donald Trump said this week he’s nominating Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — who was running for president himself not ...

An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a sun-like star, ...

Confidence that scientists will make decisions in the public interest nosedived at the onset of the pandemic but has now ...

Donald Trump's decisive re-election as US President on Nov 5 puts many aspects of health and science in a deeply concerning position. Although there is broader alarm about his openly authoritarian ...

This year's U.N. climate summit - COP29 - is being held during yet another record-breaking year of higher global temperatures ...

Berry used mathematical means to investigate what would happen to the neutron if the direction of the magnetic field changed slowly. According to the so-called adiabatic theorem, which was introduced ...

The Greater Good Science Center studies the psychology, sociology, and neuroscience of well-being, and teaches skills that foster a thriving, resilient, and compassionate society.

Half term is here again, and there’s a whole host of family-friendly activities across the capital to get stuck in to The Standard's journalism is supported by our readers. When you purchase ...

This month’s picks include a time-travel thriller with Dylan O’Brien and a dystopian comedy with Awkwafina and John Cena. By Elisabeth Vincentelli Stream it on Max. Unlike the impossibly ...

Those are the long-term scariest. Do you agree with this year’s Science of Scare list? And which pulse-raising films will you be revisiting come Halloween this year?