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Nov. 7, 2024 — Plastic pollution exacerbates the impacts of all planetary boundaries, including climate change, ocean acidification and biodiversity loss, a new paper shows. Ahead of the final ...

If we publish opinion or commentary, we label it clearly. Science News doesn’t present “both sides” of an issue when there is a clear scientific consensus. For issues such as the age of the ...

Celebrated every 10 November, World Science Day for Peace and Development highlights the significant role of science in society and the need to engage the wider public in debates on emerging ...

Jason Dinh, climate editor for Atmos, joins guest host Sophie Bushswick to talk about the debate, and other stories from the week in science, including an archeological find of medieval-era Silk ...

In perhaps the most widely repeated story in all of science, Newton is said to have chanced upon the theory of gravity while contemplating under the shade of an apple tree. According to the legend ...

Life expectancy is slowing down and the only way forward now is to slow the ageing process itself, study finds.

Science sleuths work tirelessly to uncover this misconduct ... such as the now-infamous figure of a rat with absurdly large ...

Popper, a dang good philosopher of critical rationalism, presumably never set a fastest lap or won a grand prix, but he knew science. This story originally appeared in Volume 25 of Road & Track.

For almost a century, Science News journalists have covered advances in science, medicine and technology for the general public, including the 1925 Scopes “monkey” trial, the advent of the ...

May 14, 2024 — The latest 'Florida Climate Resilience Survey' found that 90% of Floridians believe that climate change is happening. Belief in human-caused climate change has surged among ...