Starlink and other low-orbit internet satellite companies are pumping thousands of satellites into space each year in an attempt to cover the entire planet in internet connec ...

If all of Antarctica’s ice melted, our coastlines would be drastically altered. Fortunately, that’s not going to happen ...

McGill University researchers, in collaboration with Mexican scientists, have discovered two previously unknown species of ...

Children who grow up in disadvantaged neighborhoods – areas with higher levels of crime and deprivation, and lower access to ...

A new study from McGill University is reshaping how scientists date dinosaur fossils in Alberta’s Dinosaur Provincial Park ...

We’re more than 100 days into the new Trump administration, and the president has made a lot of changes to federal science funding in the U.S. – budgets have been ...

It can be tempting to assume that your intuitions about three-dimensional space carry over to higher-dimensional realms. After all, adding another dimension simply creates a new direction to move ...

As a scientific concept – does race exist? Is it a useful construct, or is it more misleading than useful? I wrote about this question in 2016, and my thinking has evolved a bit since then. My bottom ...

The fact that left-handedness resp. mixed-handedness are strikingly common in patients with certain neurological disorders ...

Abundant, low-cost, clean energy — the envisioned result if scientists and engineers can successfully produce a reliable ...

At long last, a unified theory combining gravity with the other fundamental forces—electromagnetism and the strong and weak ...

The country’s marijuana use has been rising, especially in the 24 states that allow recreational use and in the 39 states ...