President Trump's plans to police DEI language and control the Kennedy Center show an intent to use the government's enormous ...

Jay Bennett is a science writer based in Copenhagen. He previously worked as a science editor at National Geographic, Smithsonian and Popular Mechanics.

The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ...

Megan Ulu-Lani Boyanton is an award-winning reporter at The Denver Post covering immigration. She forged the newspaper's Denver neighborhoods beat after reporting on the business desk for almost two ...

The amount of microplastics in the human brain appears to be increasing over time: Concentrations rose by roughly 50 percent ...

The Turkish-American artist's hypnotic works breathe life into data, offering new ways to experience art and AI ...

Moon rocks have also made brief visits at the White House. During Trump's first term in office, a different Apollo 17 rock ...

Feeling a little stir-crazy during the pandemic, author Andrew Lawler took a trip to visit his mom back in his hometown of ...

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

Director Cristina Costantini's documentary about the first U.S. woman in space bows at the annual Utah film festival.

The waters around two remote atolls in the central Pacific Ocean—spanning 18,500 square miles—are now protected from fishing ...

Richards, who was named National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence last year, regularly joins Diving With a Purpose, a group of Black scuba divers who uncover and document slave shipwrecks in the ...