To put global climate modeling at the fingertips of local decision-makers, some scientists think it’s time to rethink the system from scratch.

MIT scientists hope to deploy a fleet of drones to get a better sense of how much carbon the ocean is absorbing, and how much more it can take.

A new analysis shows how milk-producing cells change over time in nursing mothers.

The brain can count small numbers or compare large ones. But it struggles to understand the value of a single large number. This fact may be influencing how people react to numbers about the pandemic.

A focus on raw intellectual talent may unintentionally create a cutthroat workplace culture. New research suggests women’s preference to avoid that environment may contribute to gender gaps in some fields.

Humans are usually pretty good at recognising when they get things wrong, but artificial intelligence systems are not. According to a new study, AI generally

Scientists propose a new mechanism by which oxygen may have first built up in the atmosphere

Pi has spawned its own literary style, where the number of letters in consecutive words is dictated by the decimal expansion of pi.

Discover the stories of five trailblazing women – Tharp, Nice, Tu, Noether and Wu – who worked in STEM during the 20th century.

The n-queens challenge dates back to 1869. After working on the problem for about 5 years, mathematician Michael Simkin has an almost definitive solution.