The reason it could be heard by teams on multiple telescopes and in all different directions was because that irritating noise was in fact the cosmic microwave background (CMB) – the leftover ...

STEM jobs – ranging from software engineer to physicist, to plumber – tend to be well paid. And women tend to be underrepresented in these fields. New research suggests one reason starts in kids’ ...

Science isn’t really moving towards equity; institutions are just perfecting the appearance of equity. We need to build an alternative system.

Several genetic variants associated with social behavior in honey bees are located within genes that have previously been ...

Scientists at Feinberg are reshaping scientific understanding of the cell's tiniest components—structures once thought to be ...

A protein historian and evolutionary biochemist found that a protein sequence present across all known life didn’t form as ...

When the quark hypothesis was first proposed more than 10 years ago, there were supposed to be three kinds of quark. The ...

A research team led by geophysicists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography provides an explanation for ...