Everyday Science

The company’s moves to have iPhones be less dependent on the cloud and to be more encrypted could mean more user privacy

TVs and smartphones notwithstanding, a new study suggests people do not get less sleep today than they did in prehistoric times

A dehydrating science project from Science Buddies

Do you know that math can help you survive? I’m not talking about jobs, money, and feeding yourself—I mean the lost in the wilderness, life depends on it kind of surviving. How does this work? Keep on reading The Math Dude to find out

Carbon intensity fell 2.7 percent last year but a decline of 6.3 percent a year needed for climate goal

A science project from Science Buddies

Experts are concerned that the illness, which is increasingly linked to a disorder that causes paralysis, may become a problem in the U.S.

Corals reefs are suffering a severe underwater heat wave this year for the third time on record, including a mysterious warm patch in the Pacific known as "The Blob", scientists said on Thursday.

Mr. Fusion aside, this 1989 time-traveling comedy was spot-on about many devices that we now take for granted

From prison time to the intricacies of transporting the prize itself, this award can be rife with complications

Social psychologist Philip Tetlock answers questions about his new book Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction.

Learn why propellers and windmills are shaped in similar ways