A Chinese businessman offers a government official a large monetary reward to take a dip in a river that runs through the town of Ruian.
A Chinese businessman offers a government official a large monetary reward to take a dip in a river that runs through the town of Ruian.
The small organ evolved too many times for it to be an accident, but it’s still unclear what it does.
A new play explores the mind of the father of modern physics through his interactions—factual and imagined—with a curmudgeonly colleague.
A new journal that publishes peer review comments alongside its manuscripts goes live.
Under new plans to reduce the European Union’s overall spending, science funding did relatively well, but research leaders want more—and they may well get it.
A small insect-eating animal is the common ancestor of whales, elephants, dogs, and humans.
Why so few scientists make the leap to policy-making positions, and why more should give it a try
The German minister for science and education has been stripped of her PhD after she was found guilty of plagiarizing chunks of the dissertation she wrote in 1980.
Globally, 15-year-old girls outscored boys in 43 of the 65 countries tested.
In Chapter 1, “A Theory,” author Aaron James constructs a working definition for the type of person that earns the ignominious moniker.