Corals live in oceans around the world—in shallow, warm waters and deep, cool waters, clinging to seamounts or sitting on continental shelves. They also grow in the home aquariums of countless ...

While I was stalking Western meadowlarks with my camera, a smaller flash of flying black and yellow caught my interest. I don’t see bumblebees often, and this one was not stopping at flowers but it ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - From the rumble of volcanoes to cracks of thunder, Earth has always been noisy. Separating noise from signal is key in many scientific fields, but where do you go to get away ...

The second Artemis mission took four astronauts around the moon and back — the first crewed deep-space flight since 1972. Not everyone gets a chance to put on a space suit, but you can still be an ...

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Students across North Carolina are pasting hypotheses and conclusions on tri-fold poster boards, filling in notebooks with observations and other data, and preparing to share their science fair ...

Conducting research is hard; confirming the results is, too. And artificial intelligence isn’t yet ready to help, a major new study finds. By Carl Zimmer Carl Zimmer has reported on replication in ...

Last week, Imperial College London, in collaboration with Nature, hosted a conference on a subject that’s rarely talked about in science: failure. The success of a conference on failure didn’t go ...

When I was teaching middle school science and later working as an administrator, I bought into the belief that a teacher should be a “guide on the side,” not a “sage on the stage.” Like many educators ...