Cave fish develop taste buds on their heads and chins—and even in humans, taste cells grow in truly unexpected locations ...

The new interconnected breed of autocrats gains and retains power by deception, globally undermining democracies through ...

Cecilia Menjívar is a professor of sociology and Dorothy L. Meier Social Equities Chair at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research focuses on manifestations of state violence and power ...

Deisy Del Real is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Southern California. Her award-winning research examines how emerging authoritarianism impacts forced migrants’ livelihoods ...

Physicists have nailed a fiendishly difficult measurement — the mass of the fundamental particle the W boson. The result, from the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), is in line ...

You might think of asteroids as just rocks of various sizes floating around in space. But they’re vastly more complex than ...

The difficulties of the Svalbard seed repository illustrate why we need to prevent climate disaster rather than plan for it ...

Because empathy can allow people to connect across political, racial and economic divides, it lays a foundation for acts of ...

Three scientists are honored for developing a class of blockbuster weight-loss drugs. Is a Nobel prize on the way?

In the U.S. in the early 1960s the distributor of a thalidomide drug was impatient to get it on the market. But FDA medical ...

A strange sound dubbed “biotwang” was first heard bouncing around the Mariana Trench 10 years ago, and scientists have ...