It’s your new favorite source for the strangest science-adjacent facts, figures, and Wikipedia spirals the editors of Popular ...

Distrust in science and facts has always been around. Whether it was the debate about evolution or the age of the Earth, when science and belief are in conflict, people tend to lean into discrediting ...

Despite its diverse origin stories, a wildlife expert with Texas A&M AgriLife Research said there is a simple explanation to chupacabra sightings—one far more entrenched in science than the ...

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 ...

The podcast ‘Does It Fly?’ asks whether the technology of Star Trek, Doctor Who and other popular sci-fi shows could really work.

Uncertainty is a core tenet of science — researchers should be supported so they can communicate it with confidence to the ...

If the microraptor did, in fact, have flight-capable wings ... and other stories from the week in science, including an archeological find of medieval-era Silk Road cities in the Uzbek mountains ...

AI can also remove barriers that some people face in communicating science, allowing a wider range of voices to be heard and thereby boosting the public’s trust in science. As someone with cerebral ...

Nov. 4, 2024 — Using a sophisticated new modeling approach, researchers have estimated carbon dioxide emissions from inland waters to 22 million U.S. lakes, rivers ... Laser Measurements to ...

This fact sheet attempts to dispel the fears and answer some of the questions most often asked of the National Museum of Natural History by presenting some general facts about the biology and natural ...

We are probably all guilty of feeling like we are right, even if we don’t have all the facts. According to a ... tells Popular Science. “We wanted to look into those misunderstandings and ...

including claims previously debunked by USA TODAY and other fact-checkers. To analyze climate narratives from this election cycle, USA TODAY reviewed climate science-related comments both ...