Former NIH director Dr. Harold Varmus speaks out about what recent budget cuts and policy changes could mean for science.

Certain words are overrepresented in text written by AI language models. A study investigates why such patterns develop.

After nine months aboard the International Space Station, astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have finally landed back ...

Researchers built the largest 3D map of our universe yet. What they found supports the idea that dark energy could have ...

In a new book, author John Green writes about visiting a tuberculosis hospital in Sierra Leone, where he met a TB patient not ...

In a new book, author John Green traces how the disease has impacted culture, geography, and even fashion over the centuries.

TB kills more than a million people each year. Dr. Mireille Kamariza has spent her career developing better detection and ...

The ends of chromosomes, called telomeres, typically shorten as an organism ages. But when some fat-tail dwarf lemurs ...

Mathematician Dr. Steven Strogatz breaks down the history of the math concept and brings it full circle to recent science.

A German physicist and homebrewer discovered brief, intense physical reactions that happen when you uncork a bubbly swing-top bottle.

On April 29, meet us at Green Apple Books in SF with a science book (or ask us about our favorites) and spend time in ...