“There’s enough data out there to say that beige fat is good for human health,” says Bruce Spiegelman, a researcher at the ...

Lived experiences shape how science is conducted. This matters because who gets to speak for science steers which problems ...

The family of Andre Yarham, who died of frontotemporal dementia, hopes his brain can help scientific research. He is ...

Claims that microplastics are widespread throughout the human body are now being questioned. Microplastics are real — but ...

A few extra minutes of sleep per night, plus a few more vegetables or grains and a little bit more exercise per day, can go a ...

Republicans and Democrats agree that it’s important the U.S. is a world leader in science, but sharply diverge on how the U.S ...

Scientists are using lasers, satellites and even sound to determine what is falling from the sky—but the best tool may still ...

Democrats continue to be more likely than Republicans to say science has had a mostly positive effect on society.

A Pew Research poll shows partisan split over U.S. scientific leadership, with Democrats far more concerned about losing ...

The Senate voted to provide billions more to NASA, NOAA and the National Science Foundation than the president had asked for.

A new report finds that a majority of Americans think the U.S. should be a world leader in science, but Democrats ...