Cement manufacture is a huge carbon emitter. A by-product of splitting seawater might make the process more environmentally friendly.

A style of primitive stone tools named for the French site where they were first discovered have shown up half a world away.

Decades of constant X-ray emission from the Helix Nebula’s white dwarf suggest debris from a Jupiter-sized planet steadily rains upon the star.

A new set of artificial intelligence models could make protein sequencing even more powerful for better understanding cell biology and diseases.

GS-z13-1, marks the earliest sign yet spotted of the era of cosmic reionization at 330 million years after the Big Bang.

Museum experts are exploring how to bring the science dioramas of yore into the 21st century, while ensuring scientific accuracy and acknowledging past ...

Many scientists say “subcritical” experiments and computer simulations make nuclear weapons testing unnecessary.

Editor in chief Nancy Shute traces the history of nuclear weapons, from the first sustained nuclear reaction in 1942 to the renewed interest in explosive tests today.

Scientists created transgenic mice with woolly mammoth–like traits. But does it really bring us closer to bringing back woolly mammoths?

As 23andMe prepares to be sold, Science News spoke with two experts about what’s at stake and whether consumers should delete their genetic data.

The magnitude 7.7 earthquake was powerful, shallow and in a heavily populated region with vulnerable buildings.

One of the keys to performing like an elite athlete — or at least having the metabolism of one — may be pooping like one. Transplanting feces from certain top-level cyclists and soccer players ...