Technologies that underpin modern society, such as smartphones and automobiles, rely on a diverse range of functional ...

Sponges are among Earth's most ancient animals, but exactly when they evolved has long puzzled scientists. Genetic information from living sponges, as well as chemical signals from ancient rocks, ...

Octopus and other cephalopods are good at hiding themselves—and are inspiring cutting-edge technologies that may help us do ...

Questions about the nature of consciousness remain among the most perplexing areas of modern scientific research, with ...

Abstract: Under the “Double Reduction” policy, enhancing science education and cultivating scientific literacy in primary students require effective family-school-society linkages. However, barriers ...

Bumblebees can process the duration of flashes of light and use the information to decide where to look for food, a new study has found. This is the first evidence of such an ability in insects, ...

A man in a winter hat and wearing blue plastic gloves holds a plastic sample cup and pointed tool near a shelf-like fungus growing on the side of a mossy tree in a forest. A researcher collecting ...

When Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova was detained at Logan Airport in February and charged with bringing frog embryos into the country for research purposes without declaring them to customs, it ...

While many “progressives” tried to warn about Trump’s threat to science, these renown scientists and scholars sat on the sidelines and undermined them. In 2016, the physicist Lawrence M. Krauss, wrote ...

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, as called for in President Trump’s recent Executive Order, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Michael Kratsios issued guidance to federal agencies on ...

This study investigates the design and practical implementation of teaching strategies aimed at enhancing scientific literacy in university physics education, using Newton’s laws of motion as a case ...

RESTORING GOLD STANDARD SCIENCE IN AMERICA: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to restore Gold Standard Science as the cornerstone of Federal scientific research and rebuild ...