The telescope has the largest digital camera ever made. It’s so precise that one image alone contains 10 million galaxies.

Katie Edwards has lost millions of dollars in grant money, bringing her research to a standstill. She’s taking the fight to ...

David Kessler took GLP-1 drugs to help manage his weight. In his new book, he explains why the drugs are revolutionary, but ...

Microbes—from deep in the ocean to the slime inside your AC—might play a key role in our fight against climate change.

In the new Adult Swim show “Common Side Effects,” an eccentric scientist has a secret: He’s discovered a strange mushroom that can cure any illness or injury, and he wants to get it to people in need.

Last month, a baby got the world’s first personalized gene-editing treatment. What will this mean for millions of others with genetic diseases?

Is the Hubble constant—a key part of how we measure the expansion of our universe—in a crisis? Some cosmologists say yes.

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Kathleen Davis is a producer and fill-in host at Science Friday, which means she spends her weeks researching, writing, ...

A side-by-side comparison of the optimal maximal speed running gait of the Au. afarensis model with modern human-like tricep surae muscle architecture. Credit: Bates, Karl T. et al., 2025 Lucy is one ...

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