CLIMATEWIRE | The Trump administration on Monday dismissed all of the scientists working on the newest version of the National Climate Assessment, a sweeping report that outlines the growing ...

Now, computer science is taking advantage of the usefulness of the periodic table to help them achieve their own scientific ends. MIT researchers have created a periodic table that orders AI ...

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A scientist has shared a disturbing experiment to reveal the amount of bacteria that can be found on your hands after using a ...

WESTMORELAND, Jamaica — A forensic scientist assigned to the Institute of Forensic Science and Legal Medicine gave testimony in the Mario Deane case about items provided by the police for analysis.

Dr. Francis Collins: It just became untenable. I was-- as every other scientist in that circumstance--not allowed to speak-- in any kind of scientific meeting or public setting Sharyn Alfonsi ...

For David Rosing, a former system engineer at the CalTech Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Sunland, California, the decision to purchase an electric vehicle was far from rocket science. After ...

One of America's most famous scientists shocked the social media universe Monday after appearing with a Make America Great Again hat in his hands. Neil deGrasse Tyson, the famed astrophysicist ...

A scientist carried out an experiment to see if hand dryers are really hygienic, demonstrating exactly why they never use ...

Nearly 400 scientists across the United States were informed Monday afternoon that their services were no longer needed to help write a major report on climate change for the federal government.

Like his scientist father, Kerr wanted to understand how cells of the human body transform food into energy. “He was interested in the ways in which mitochondrial functions in the cells weren ...