Education should promote deep inquiry and individual autonomy, but often, it has been used as a vehicle for indoctrination.

The sea level rises caused by climate change (and the resultant submersion of low-lying coastal areas) threaten the lives of ...

Off the coast of Blekinge, in southern Sweden, at a depth of around 50–60 meters, the bottom sediment has scars that are tens ...

Looking to inform the conservation of critically endangered bird species, University of Utah biologists have completed an ...

This Thanksgiving, solar storms may produce faint auroras across the northern rim of the United States. Pale auroras may be ...

Taxonomy is the science of describing, classifying and naming organisms. It organizes the vast diversity of life on Earth.

When a star dies in a supernova, one possible outcome is for the remains to become a neutron star. Inside a neutron star, the ...

For the first time, researchers have quantified the global emissions of a sulfur gas produced by marine life, revealing that ...

A tiny, four-fingered "hand" folded from a single piece of DNA can pick up the virus that causes COVID-19 for highly ...

The average amount of plastic packaging waste generated by a single EU citizen per year is 36 kilograms. Longer-term ...