An ambitious book challenges long-held assumptions on diet and nutrition and exposes gaps in public-health guidance.

As humanity prepares to take its first steps on Mars, a comprehensive report released by the National Academies of Sciences, ...

Spaceflight, genetic tinkering, and the psychological implications of technological acceleration are explored with accuracy ...

From poachers to politics, “Tigers Between Empires” details the 30-year-long international collaboration that set out to study and save Russia’s Siberian tigers.

Psycholinguists from the Center for Language and Brain found that phonological processing skills continue to influence text reading fluency in 15-to-18-year-old adolescents. This finding argues the ...

Forty years ago, Voyager imaged Uranus and presented the world with a new mystery. Upon further inspection, it may have just ...

To see if conversational large language models can really sway political views of the public, scientists at the UK AI ...

Whether you’re buying for a history buff or a foodie (or anyone in between), this list of non-fiction books will make holiday shopping a breeze ...

The belief that children cannot feel pain lasted well into the 1980s. It was common for them to undergo surgery while ...

War on Science takes aim at science’s global culture wars. Edited by controversial physicist Lawrence Krauss, it argues ...

From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year ...

A new study shows that the UK is one of the places where people feel the least connected to nature, but science tells us that ...