The mountaineering history behind "skimo," a new Winter Olympic event. Plus, new USDA dietary guidelines tell us to “eat real ...

The mountaineering history behind "skimo," a new Winter Olympic event. Plus, research into a true alpine champion, the mountain goat.

A new study suggests dogs began to diversify about 11,000 years earlier than we thought. Plus, a long-running experiment to ...

For C. Thi Nguyen, rock climbing brought joy and satisfaction—until he started chasing scores and focusing on "leveling up." ...

China is reshaping its energy economy with renewables like wind and solar—and flooding the world with affordable solar ...

A new book explores what we lose when we’re always keeping score—at work, in life, even within ourselves. Can games help set us free?

In turbulent times, it helps to hear stories of resilience. What can we learn from 3.5 billion-year-old bacteria that eat ...

A science historian looks to the past to understand our current moment, and how ghostwriting in scientific papers is harming ...

A flu variant called subclade K emerged too late to be fully covered by this year's vaccine. But the flu shot can still help protect you.

As we enter a new age of space travel, a former NASA astronaut says that rather than accepting risk, we should try to control ...

An epidemiology study finds variations in one gene, APOE, play a major role in determining the risk of Alzheimer’s disease.