SCIENCE

Grant Imahara, who passed away in July at age 49, is the namesake of The Grant Imahara STEAM Foundation, which will help bring opportunities to students.

Bermuda's red soil and the Bahamas's white-sand beaches might have come from the same place: the Sahara Desert.

It's a bit of an oversimplification, but the food you eat really can take a wrong turn before it hits your stomach.

A Twinkie was found shriveled-up and hardened after eight years in a basement, and now scientists are searching for the fungus behind the transformation.

Genetics probably play a part in dimple formation, and so does a muscle called the “zygomaticus major.”

Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna have been awarded 2020's Nobel Prize in Chemistry, making them the first women to jointly receive the prize.

In the mid-1800s, John Henry Pepper was a superstar in science demonstrations. Then he helped usher in a dramatic special effect that left Victorian London awestruck.

Our ancestors may have predisposed us to fear spiders, insects, and other many-legged creatures, but there's a lot more to it.

Groups of warring woodpeckers butt heads over territory and acorns. Other woodpeckers fly in from miles away to witness their avian prizefights.

Killer whales have repeatedly laid siege to boats, working in concert in what appear to be deliberate acts of aggression.

Author Emily Anthes explores the thriving communities of bacteria and fungi with which we share our abodes—and what they reveal about us.

The facts on where it comes from, how it works, and whether it could happen with the novel coronavirus.