The U.S. should implement the same reforms to its high court that it has called for in other nations, a judicial reform scholar suggests

World Biodiversity Day reminds us that the profound crises we confront are just different sides of the same coin

Used diapers can replace up to 40 percent of the sand that is typically used in making concrete, lowering costs and keeping more trash out of landfills

Researchers still hope to discover hundreds of new binary black hole mergers despite technical setbacks that have sidelined key detectors in Italy and Japan

Most real numbers are unknown—even to mathematicians

Cell phone towers leak radio waves into space, but they’ll be tough for aliens to detect

A young mountain gorilla who is able to survive the tough early years may live as long or longer than peers who coasted through their youth without incident

The least skilled people know how much they don't know, but everyone thinks they are better than average

The huge watery cloud spurting from Enceladus could carry the ingredients for life farther into space than previously known

A flexible, conductive membrane that can pass sensory information to the brain and muscles is a step towards artificial skin

How realistic is it to expect to find enough ice on the moon to support human habitation?

The Montreal Protocol was intended to save Earth’s ozone layer, but it also helped slow global warming and delayed the melting of Arctic sea ice

Using “slow water” methods can make the Colorado River Basin and its people more resilient

The death throes of a massive star in the galaxy M101, located just 21 million light-years away from Earth, are entrancing professional and amateur astronomers alike

After reading a Scientific American editorial on sleep and school start times, students and their teacher wrote to the editors about their experiences. Their district listened, and school will start later next year

What you pay for tests, vaccines, and medicine will change

Killer whales in a group near Spain and Portugal may be teaching one another to mess with small boats. They sank their third vessel earlier this month

By enacting simple laws that make guns safer and harder to get, we can prevent killings like the ones in Uvalde and Buffalo

Politically polarized Google users are not steered to partisan sites by the search engine’s algorithm but generally decide to go there on their own

Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks visited Alaska this week to see how climate change is undermining infrastructure at Arctic military bases