A team of cancer biologists led by Princeton’s Yibin Kang has resolved a confounding paradox about retinoids and cancer cells ...

A host of new science books are due to hit shelves in January, by authors including Claudia Hammond, Deborah Cohen and Daisy ...

In 2025, Popular Science continued our mission to demystify our weird world for millions of readers. We debunked myths about ...

As part of his campaign against chronic disease, he has redrawn the government's position on topics such as seed oils, ...

Giorgio Armani, Italy’s most famous designer, passed away on September 4, 2025. Armani, who was 91, was synonymous with ...

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 ...

Cuts to scientific research focused disproportionately on research around diversity equity and inclusion. Some researchers say we're just beginning to understand the impact.

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

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...

New research from UBC Okanagan mathematically demonstrates that the universe cannot be simulated. Using Gödel’s incompleteness theorem, scientists found that reality requires “non-algorithmic ...

It was a question Dr. Gideon Lack asked often, when giving lectures to fellow allergists and pediatricians on the topic of food allergies: How many doctors in the room had a patient allergic to ...