Elementary school students in Boise got a glimpse of outer space life. NASA astronaut Don Pettit video chatted with students about the International Space Station.

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The world’s first fully 3D-printed microscope can be made in a few hours and for a fraction of the cost of traditional ones.

From Japan, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist’s Out of Eden Walk marks 12 years, with North America on the horizon.

A newfound "chicken-size" dinosaur, recently unearthed in Wyoming, changes what paleontologists thought they knew about how ...

The American Historical Association, the largest association of professional historians in the U.S., passed a resolution this ...

In July, physicists at Germany’s Forschungszentrum Jülich and Korea’s IBS Center for Quantum Nanoscience (QNS) reported that they had fabricated a quantum sensor that can detect the electric and ...

With a surface area more than twice that of Greater London's, A23a is the biggest iceberg on the planet, having calved from the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf in 1986. The frozen leviathan is now on the ...

In our most popular video, Science News Explores assistant managing editor Maria Temming explains that a high dose of the drug can temporarily scramble a person’s unique default brain activity.

Illustration by Emily Lankiewicz / Full credit at bottom of article Joe Spring and Carlyn Kranking This year, Smithsonian magazine published more than 900 science ... of the world’s oldest ...

Son had made a similar pledge in 2016 to spend $50bn over Donald Trump’s four-year US presidential term. A new study has found that people eating several portions of dark chocolate per week were ...