Mona Minkara is in her office with multicolored molecular-model supplies on her desk. Her eyes peek out through holes in a red-and-white model she is inspecting with her hands. The model is about the ...

Folco Panizza is assistant professor of prosocial behaviour and decision making at the IMT School for Advanced Studies in Lucca, Italy. Surveys are a cornerstone of social-science research. Over the ...

Manu Prakash works on the world’s most urgent problems and seemingly frivolous questions at the same time. They add up to a philosophy he calls “recreational biology.” Inside Manu Prakash are two ...

The big picture: The rapid rise of generative artificial intelligence is prompting a fundamental rethinking of computer science education in the US. As AI-powered tools become increasingly proficient ...

Monkeys in modern-day Thai forests create stone artifacts uncannily similar to those crafted by early humans — challenging the established narrative of human cultural evolution. A new study published ...

In this week's roundup of science news, Emily Kwong and Rachel Carlson talk about a newly discovered desert flower, tasting lemonade in virtual reality and prehistoric bone tools used by early humans.