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Each month we check in with the journal Nature for a few headlines that they're following. This month we speak with Benjamin Thompson, the head of the…

When the now-debunked paper by Andrew Wakefield linking vaccines to autism was published in 1998, American vaccine developer Peter Hotez immediately…

We’re all familiar with an itchy bug bite, maybe the torture of poison ivy or chicken pox. But what if that kind of itching went on and on?It’s a problem…

Empathy: you probably have an intuitive sense of what it is, but can you define it? The word itself is about a century old, and the meaning has actually…

The year 2017 was a devastating one for North Atlantic right whales. There are just over 400 of the critically endangered whales left, and there were 17…

You’ve heard of the space race and the arms race, but there’s another international race that many of us have never even heard of. It’s the race to make…

Each month we take a tour of science headlines from our friends at the Journal Nature and the Nature podcast. Chief Digital Editor, Anna Nagle spoke with…

An unassuming fungus that dwells in lakes and damp soil has proved to be the most potent killer of a large group of species ever documented. The victims…

Nearly four out of five people represented in human genetic research are of European decent. That’s the result of a recent analysis that also found that…

Living Lab Radio this week.Vegan meat substitutes like Impossible Burger are popping up at fast food chains across the nation, raising questions about…