Oct. 18, 2025: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Climate change worsened by human behavior made 2025 one of the three hottest years on record, scientists said. It was also the first time that the three-year temperature average broke through the ...

Scientists are sharpening their forecasts for how long Earth can remain a comfortable home for complex organisms, and the latest work points to a much earlier cutoff than the classic textbook ...

The Earth's crust is composed of approximately 15 to 20 tectonic plates, which float on molten magma beneath the Earth.

Oct. 25, 2025: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

The new Doomsday Clock time has been set by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Here’s what it means.

Scientists have detected what they described as "unusually high" levels of a radioactive substance called iodine-129 in the West Philippine Sea (WPS)—the chemical often used as a clue to track nuclear ...

Young children have a lot of trust in scientists, and watching superhero TV shows with villainous researchers has little impact—and only in certain situations, a new study shows. Subscribe to our ...