Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights

Archaeologist says she's in academic purgatory, observing from a distance as Syria burns, unable to help protect its history or its present.

The digestive power of this amoeba is the stuff of nightmares when it plays out in a human brain.

Rising water temperature encourage the spread of harmful bacteria in ocean waters.

Sharks elicit outsized fear, even though the risk of a shark bite is infinitesimally small. Here's why.

The key to success is to focus on providing the cat with as much choice and control during interactions as possible.

Participants in a new study said that microdosing psychedelics made them more confident, motivated and productive.

A space lawyer answers this apparently common question.

The truth behind moon landing conspiracy theories.

Armstrong always insisted that he said, 'That’s one small step for a man.' Yet everyone omits the 'a' when they repeat the quote. A linguist tries to get to the bottom of what happened.

The first humans to land on the Moon, and the team that got them there, get all the glory. But before them came the unglamorous work by astronomers to find a flat landing spot.

If we can't beat them, humans perhaps should join rats in our shared ecosystem.

Here's the chemistry behind those awesome fireworks shows.

Here's why plant life is so resilient to radiation and nuclear disaster.

Only recently have scientists found the human eye has its own microbiome.

Aren't all of these "medications" approved by the Food and Drug Administration? Nope.

I ate a burger last night and it surprised me. It was delicious. So what was surprising? It was made from peas.

The Defense Department remains the world's single largest consumer of oil, and as a result, one of the world's top greenhouse gas emitters.