The philosopher Rebecca Newberger Goldstein’s latest book looks beyond happiness as the goal of a well-lived life.

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists at Trinity College Dublin have identified a "universal thermal performance curve" that governs how all living organisms respond to temperature. This finding ...

MicroRNAs, whose discovery was recognized with the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, are central regulators of gene ...

Climate change has a wide range of effects on wildlife. It affects seasonal migration, reproduction times, body size and mass ...

This year’s recipient of the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement talks about “punk science,” microbial economics and thinking like a mycorrhizal fungus.

Scientists have uncovered a new way embryonic cells divide when conventional mechanisms fail. Cell division underpins all ...

These underground rodents are the first mammals found to actively choose air with lower-than-normal oxygen levels. Their ...

The way the brain develops can shape us throughout our lives, so neuroscientists are intensely curious about how it happens.