Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights

The cryosphere is critical to Earth and its inhabitants, but it is vanishing as the planet warms.

Here's why computers will never be truly conscious.

Over the past few years, studies have indicated eating red is bad for your health, but a new study seems to reverse that. So what should you do?

More and more towns and cities across the country are electing to celebrate Indigenous Peoples' Day as an alternative to — or in addition to — Columbus Day.

Here's a look at why more women don't win more Nobel Prizes in science, an issue that involves women's exclusion from education and careers in science.

The diminutive size of the extinct human relative called the Hobbit, or Homo floresiensis, could come down to really fast evolution.

Scientists found that the superbug MRSA had been gifted its antibiotic resistance from another microbe.

Psychotic experiences are more common than you might think and don't mean you have a mental health condition.

Elon Musk's bold plan to send a crewed Starship to Mars and beyond has potential dire consequences for alien life.

Here are the facts about the flu shot and why this vaccine can't give you the flu virus.

So how do we mark the beginning of this human age?

Even if the entire Amazon rainforest burned down, we'd be okay.

Digital attacks can hit many targets at once.

If all aliens have gone extinct, what does the future hold for humanity?

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.