Science dioramas of yesteryear can highlight the biases of the time. Exhibit experts are reimagining, annotating — and sometimes mothballing — the scenes.

What happened: The board voted for the implementation of new state science standards in grades kindergarten through eight for the 2025-26 school year. Details: The new Science, Technology ...

We discuss a big week for commercial spaceflight, a red dye ban and a scary spider species in this news roundup. Linguists think that the words that we use to express pain might tell us something ...

A landmark study reporting the discovery of Australopithecus africanus one century ago put the African continent at the centre of the story of humanity. Overcrowding can lead to disaster, and yet ...

Feb. 10, 2025 — Years before tau tangles show up in brain scans of patients with Alzheimer's disease, a biomarker test can detect small amounts of the clumping-prone tau protein and its ...

For almost a century, Science News journalists have covered advances in science, medicine and technology for the general public, including the 1925 Scopes “monkey” trial, the advent of the ...

Keokuk Middle School students showcased their science research projects to the public and judges in the KMS library on Feb. 7 ...

Subscribe to this podcast. Plus, to stay updated on all things science, sign up for Science Friday's newsletters. January 27, 2025 • A recent study in the journal Nature unveiled new proteins ...

Multinational Research Project Shows How Life on Earth Can Be Measured from Space Feb. 6, 2025 — Measurements and data collected from space can be used to better understand life on Earth.

I’m an epidemiologist who fact-checks science news, and in general ... This is very rare transparency for a scientific project. Overall, the review paper found that fluoride exposure for ...

Olivia Ferrari is a New York City-based freelance journalist with a background in research and science communication. Olivia has lived and worked in the U.K., Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia.