One clear diagnosis from this year’s corruption scandal is the lack of science in planning and designing flood control projects, harming communities instead of protecting them during typhoons.

From tech companies to airlines and streaming services, monopolies are becoming more problematic around the world.

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Maria Branyas Morera, once the world's oldest woman, died in 2024 at age 117. Live Science took a deep look at a study that ...

“This is a paradigm shift,” says Donn Van Deren, PhD, postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, who ...

History shows we often dismiss what we don’t yet understand. Here’s why stigmatizing today’s uncomfortable questions may be holding humanity back.

A research team has managed to “bottle” a highly reactive carbene in water, overturning a major assumption in chemistry.

Organoids are bits of neural tissue that model human brain development. Their use in science makes some uneasy, in part because the brain is so closely tied to our sense of self.