We've been looking at nature the wrong way, argues Rowan Hooper. If we stop focusing on the individual, we get a whole new ...

Long before an Assemblies of God pastor was convicted of rape, children told church leaders about hidden cameras, drugged ...

New research suggests Earth’s first complex life stayed close to the seafloor and depended on oxygen to survive.

In 1994, a strange, pixelated machine came to life on a computer screen. It read a string of instructions, copied them, and built a clone of itself — just as the Hungarian-American Polymath John von ...

When I left the classroom 12 years ago, computer science was still treated like a niche pursuit, something for the few. Today, it’s the engine of change across every sector. In K–12 education, it is ...

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has spent more than 13 years exploring the 3.5-billion-year-old Gale crater, slowly climbing a central mound known as Mount Sharp. Satellite data suggest this formation may ...

A man wearing retro headphones sits and works at an old '80s PC. - Stock-Asso/Shutterstock The 1980s are a fascinating period in recent history. It was the decade when regular people really started to ...

Anyone who grew up before the internet remembers a world that moved a little differently. Information traveled more slowly, plans required more coordination, and daily life involved a surprising ...

Over 4 billion years ago, an asteroid called Bennu was drifting through the solar system. Three years ago, NASA brought 121.6 grams of that space rock back to Earth. Scientists wanted to see if the ...

Life’s story may stretch further back than scientists once thought. Some genes found in nearly every organism today were already duplicated before all life shared a common ancestor. By tracking these ...