Chimpanzees use a variation of the "scientific method" — discarding prior beliefs if convincing new evidence comes along to ...

One of the things I love most about science is that sometimes it gets things wrong. In other disciplines, errors are fatal; chefs don’t benefit from poisoning their patrons. But scientists learn early ...

According to a new Physical Review Letters study, black holes could help solve the dark matter mystery. The shadowy regions in black hole images captured by the Event Horizon Telescope can act as ...

Oscar S. Wyatt Jr., the tenacious oil magnate and philanthropist who parlayed an $800 loan into a multibillion-dollar business empire, died Wednesday. He was 101. Wyatt died "peacefully of old age and ...

Nobels are awarded in only three scientific categories, but other awards honor researchers across different fields. By Alexa Robles-Gil Since the Nobel Prizes were first awarded in 1901, they have ...