Have you ever stuffed an owl into a tomato sauce can?Norman Smith has. Lots of them, actually.Today he’s working with two snowy owls — beautiful birds…

Think you’re too old to run the Boston Marathon? You may just be training the wrong way. Not all marathoners are twenty-somethings, or even…

If signs of life are found on a planet beyond our solar system sometime in the next decade, they’ll most likely be on a planet discovered by a NASA…

Perhaps you, like me, followed the recent saga of the malfunctioning Chinese space station that came hurtling back to earth from orbit last week without incident. Well, the whole thing got me wondering just how big a problem man-made objects falling from the sky really is.

The inaugural March for Science brought hundreds of thousands of scientists and supporters into the streets. This year's events, scheduled for April 14, will feature an accountability theme.

Humans have a tailbone for a tail we don’t have, wisdom teeth that don’t fit in our mouths, and tonsils that only seem to cause problems. Not everyone has…

Scientist Calls For New Conversation On Genes And “Race”There is a long and troubling history of science, or at least pseudoscience, being used to justify…

We know we have an opioid epidemic. Opioid overdoses have become the leading cause of accidental deaths for Americans under the age of 50. But the problem is far worse in some places than in others.

Look at the objects around you: your computer, your phone, your water bottle, the books on your desk. Chances are, all of these things came from a…

Click the audio player above to listen to the radio version of this story.A recent study called Gender Shades looks at how accurately the facial…