The mountaineering history behind "skimo," a new Winter Olympic event. Plus, new USDA dietary guidelines tell us to “eat real food.” Should policymakers get highly processed foods out of our stores ...

New USDA dietary guidelines tell us to “eat real food.” Should policymakers get highly processed foods out of our stores and ...

A new study suggests dogs began to diversify about 11,000 years earlier than we thought. Plus, a long-running experiment to ...

The mountaineering history behind "skimo," a new Winter Olympic event. Plus, research into a true alpine champion, the mountain goat.

China is reshaping its energy economy with renewables like wind and solar—and flooding the world with affordable solar ...

For C. Thi Nguyen, rock climbing brought joy and satisfaction—until he started chasing scores and focusing on "leveling up." ...

A new book explores what we lose when we’re always keeping score—at work, in life, even within ourselves. Can games help set us free?

Jo Boaler is the co-founder of YouCubed.org and author of What’s Math Got To Do With It? (Penguin, 2015). She’s also a professor of mathematics education at Stanford University in Stanford, California ...

A science historian looks to the past to understand our current moment, and how ghostwriting in scientific papers is harming ...

A flu variant called subclade K emerged too late to be fully covered by this year's vaccine. But the flu shot can still help protect you.

In turbulent times, it helps to hear stories of resilience. What can we learn from 3.5 billion-year-old bacteria that eat ...

Urban fires can release all kinds of chemicals. One year after fires hit Los Angeles, scientists are trying to understand the toxic fallout.