Robert F. Kennedy junior, America’s health secretary, thinks that autism has become an “epidemic” in his country.

Famed biologist Richard Dawkins endorsed Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling's latest social media comments criticizing ...

The Girlguiding organization and the Women’s Institute both said a court ruling from earlier this year had forced their hands ...

Fairfax County Public Schools agreed to a judgment in a suit over its pronoun and bathroom policies as federal Title IX ...

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

Usually, there are three or four supermoons every year. These last three, in October, November, and now December 2025, are ...

Shrimp are invertebrates, but there is a growing scientific consensus that they can experience pain and distress – and that ...

Tool use was once considered the exclusive domain of humans. While that definition has expanded to include chimps fishing for ...

Oxford researchers map the evolution of the kiss and conclude that mouth-to-mouth contact likely arose in a common primate ancestor 16.9-21.5 million years ago.

We have long struggled to determine how the first living organisms on Earth came together. Now, surprising evidence hints ...

From meeting on campus a week early to begin rehearsals, to performing multiple rehearsals a day in 100-degree heat, marching ...

Few figures in history have done more to change our understanding of the natural world. We celebrate Jane Goodall’s remarkable life with rare images from the National Geographic archives.