Science

As people turn to mindfulness apps to help deal with the stress and uncertainty thrown up by the pandemic, it begs the question: is this ancient practice really a panacea for modern day anxiety and depression?

How do marijuana’s psychoactive properties work?

Considering studying science at university but not sure what to do once you graduate? Here’s our pick of some of the most exciting careers in science right now.

Fusing a small protein to a natural blood clotting factor made the factor last significantly longer in the human body, according to a new clinical study that has raised hopes for a vastly improved treatment for hemophilia. Currently, people with severe forms of hemophilia—a condition in which blood fails to clot […]

The 1.2-inch skull has revealed all kinds of sauropod secrets.

In 1859, 14 years after the founding of this magazine, Charles Darwin published the most important scientific book ever written. On the Origin of Species revolutionized society’s understanding of the natural world. Challenging Victorian dogma, Darwin argued that species were not immutable, each one specially created by God. Rather life […]

Climate scientist Darcy Peter is Gwich’in Athabascan and hails from the Yukon River village of Beaver, Alaska, population 25. There, she says, “The concept of a grocery store is overwhelming.” She laments that climate change threatens the village’s subsistence economy. “The Yukon’s channels are changing like crazy” as its banks […]

Children aren’t immune to the virus, though they rarely develop serious disease.