With "Tron: Ares" opening in theaters this weekend, we take a look back at the 1982 original that revolutionized CGI and influenced nearly every science-fiction film to come — even though it wasn't ...

After decades of setting the pace for tech and innovation, the U.S. is at risk of surrendering its lead in the race that will define the future.

Funding for science is more than just the amount of money. To a large extent, the organizations that fund research set the agenda, and different funders have different priorities. It can also be hard ...

Four years after vows to champion parents rights and end “critical race theory” helped Glenn Youngkin become Virginia’s governor, Winsome Earle-Sears has made transgender student policies a campaign ...

I drove up to my first sound bath experience not knowing quite what to expect. The meditative practice, which utilizes chimes, gongs, and an arsenal of “vibrational musical instruments,” has existed ...

Its origin is rooted in decades of careful research and innovative science that transformed a naturally occurring hormone into a powerful medicine.

No degree. No academic training. Not even money for university. How Jane Goodall went from waitress to world icon.

A new study used mathematical formulas and demonstrated that it’s highly unlikely life began on Earth. Instead, the researcher points to panspermia, a theory that life or the ingredients for life came ...

New studies of the “platypus of materials” help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, patterns.

I arrived on a mission: I wanted to prove that Charles Darwin was wrong. Like so many other creationists, I believed scientists were either lying to us or they were so biased that they were ...

Diamonds are made out of carbon — highly organized carbon, that is. Geologists are still guessing how diamonds formed in the Earth from 1 billion to 3 billion years ago.