As a graduate student at the University of California, San Francisco more than a decade ago, Sarah Goodwin witnessed her PhD advisor, biologist Ron Vale, establish a unique science communication ...

Viraj Muthye is a bioinformatician at Alberta Precision Laboratories and the cofounder of the Creative Science Alliance. Whether he is crunching data or communicating science, his goal is to tell a ...

Steven Spielberg once said, “The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.” This has certainly been my ...

I WAS saddened to hear of the death last month of Harriet, the giant tortoise that Charles Darwin reputedly collected from the Galapagos Islands in 1835. She died in the Australia Zoo in Beerwah, ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Russian zoologist Ilia Ivanov was determined to find a way to hybridize humans and chimps, and successful hybridization of other animals convinced ...

For centuries, sailors reported enormous walls of water capable of crushing ships and disappearing without warning, but scientists dismissed the stories as maritime folklore. That changed in 1995, ...

A new documentary exploring mankind's biggest questions about the origin of the universe and whether science points to a creator will open in theaters nationwide this week. In "The Story of Everything ...