He sold frogs, started fires, began high school late, and dreamed big. How Worcester rocket maker Robert Goddard and his wife ...

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Nature runs on physics, chemistry, and a little evolutionary stubbornness. Some animals carry abilities that sound like ...

In 1921, Otto Loewi woke from a dream with the idea for an experiment that proved nerves communicate using chemicals, not just electricity. By showing that stimulating one frog’s heart released a ...

Forget “ eye of newt and toe of frog/wool of bat and tongue of dog.” People in the 16th century were more akin to DIY ...

UC San Diego student Pablo Asencio is turning his incarceration and reentry experience into cloud-based AI tools for criminal justice and health challenges. His journey shows how campus partnerships ...

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From coral gardens in French Polynesia to rewilded forests in Romania, a new generation of conservation projects invites ...

Learn how citizen science and nature journaling help track wildlife and connect you to Louisiana's environment. Discover ...

At a park near Canberra, Australia, a series of small white pyramid-shaped boxes are part of a new experiment: Can “frog ...

Madeleine Finlay sits down with science editor Ian Sample and science correspondent Nicola Davis to discuss three eye-catching stories, including the impact of a powerful psychedelic on depression, ...