A magnitude 7.7 earthquake in Myanmar caused widespread shaking and likely considerable damage because of a lack of buildings built to withstand temblors

Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan and an international banking group have quietly concluded that climate change will likely exceed the Paris Agreement’s 2 degree C goal and are examining how to maintain profits

Intermittent fasting has gained a following, in part because of tantalizing hints that it can boost cognition, fend off cancer and even slow aging

The real-life Indiana Jones returns to North America on his LARGEST lecture tour ever to share the latest discoveries and make the most thrilling announcements of his remarkable career. This event will make history – live on stage – and you won’t want to miss it! Learn more.

Despite fears that speaking out will make them targets, top researchers warn that the Trump administration’s “wholesale assault on U.S. science” will harm the nation

Researchers put forward a comprehensive model outlining the conditions that may give rise to the vivid mental phenomena that some people experience as they near death

In a first, physicists have directly seen Hofstadter’s butterfly—a long-sought-after fractal in the quantum realm

New data released by the EPA show that nearly half of people in the U.S. have drinking water contaminated by toxic “forever chemicals,” or PFAS

Data from 300,000 births reveal how essential biological measurements are altered by carrying and delivering a baby

The Trump Administration has fired four leaders and thousands of employees at the National Institutes of Health in “one of the darkest days”

Swarms of satellites launched by SpaceX and other companies are disrupting astronomical observations. Here's how scientists are coping

By burying an assessment with updates and recommendations about the U.S.’s current measles outbreaks, the CDC has signaled an alarming shift in its public messaging

The privately funded Fram2 mission is the first ever to take astronauts into polar orbit—and the latest sign of a “new normal” for human spaceflight