Science News. She wrote Growth Curve, a blog about the science of raising kids, from 2013 to 2019 and continues to write ...

A Biography lifts the curtain on the private life of Charles Darwin, one of science’s most controversial pioneers.

British chef Mike Keen will ski across Greenland eating only fermented seal. Researchers will study how the Inuit diet shapes ...

As public health officials around the world monitor dozens of former passengers and crewmembers of the MV Hondius for signs ...

Water droplets on soap films orbited and merged like colliding galaxies, a technique that could help scientists study the ...

Technologies, including chatbots, promise to make life easier. But removing the friction, or effort involved in thinking, has ...

A study of 50 crab species in Japan traces the iconic sideways walk to a single ancestor, suggesting the trait drove the ...

For nearly a decade, Vincent Bombail has been tickling rats. It’s been a standard technique used in the study of animal ...

Tenets of quantum mechanics and special relativity, among other theoretical ideas, lead inexorably to string theory.

A 59,000-year-old Neandertal molar unearthed in Siberia was drilled with a stone tool – the earliest evidence of primitive ...

Around one in 500 women don’t have a functioning womb, needed to carry a pregnancy. This condition, called absolute uterine ...

February 2018 as the editor in chief of Science News. Shute is a science journalist in print, digital and broadcast, and a ...