Scientist and medical technology entrepreneur J. Craig Venter published the first bacterial genome ever decoded in 1995. The ...

Searching for alien life by looking for specific signals from individual planets may overlook a larger pattern, new research ...

How are bacterial pathogens able to effectively overcome plants' defense mechanisms? Researchers working with Professor Şuayb ...

Dictionary entries for the word 'wool' must be urgently updated to include plant–based alternatives, woke scientists say. For centuries, the term has been used to describe the soft, curly hair forming ...

Science has always fascinated people around the world, and Indians have a rich history in the field because they have made some of the most important contributions in the field over the years. In fact ...

Scientists once thought illness was caused by “miasmas,” foul vapors that drifted through the air. For centuries, they were certain that the sun rotated around the Earth. Until the 1950s, they ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Momentum Over Milestones: Success is not the destination you applaud at the finish line; it is the courage to stay aboard while the landscape blurs, the turns tighten, and the goalpost keeps moving ...

This Pew Research Center report looks at Americans’ views on scientists and scientific research. Why did we do this? Pew Research Center does research to help the public, media and decision-makers ...

People deemed “cool” boast six surprisingly similar personality traits across cultures, according to a new study that hints at the role played by broadcast media in standardising the meaning of the ...

From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year Joe Spring, ...

In August, an amateur French astronomer, Adrien Coffinet, messaged an email list dedicated to asteroid and comet research with an announcement. He’d identified a new quasi-moon: “2025 PN7 seems to be ...