The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has revised its long-standing guidance about vaccines and ...

If you are fluent in any language other than English, you have probably noticed that some things are impossible to translate ...

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

Chimpanzees naturally ingest surprising amounts of alcohol from ripe, fermenting fruit. Careful measurements show that their typical fruit diet can equal one to two human drinks each day. This ...

A century ago, two oddly domestic puzzles helped set the rules for what modern science treats as "real": a Guinness brewer ...

Researchers design studies that might disprove what’s called their null hypothesis – the opposite of the claim they’re interested in exploring.

The rare earth hypothesis was proposed in a 2000 book by palaeontologist Peter Ward and astronomer Donald Brownlee. It argues that while simple, microbial life may be common in the universe, complex, ...

Google's advanced AI, C2S-Scale 27B, developed with Yale, has generated and validated a novel hypothesis on cancer cell behaviour. This AI understands cellular language, predicting that the drug ...

Blue is remarkably rare in nature because true blue pigments are almost non-existent in living organisms. Instead, most natural blue results from structural coloration, where microscopic arrangements ...

Imagine a planet much like Earth, except instead of green trees dotting its swaths of land, two species of flowers—black daisies and white daisies—are the dominant plant life. The flowers are ...