Vultures aren't most people's favorite animal. But when they began dying in India, they set in motion a domino effect that spread disease and cost the government billions of dollars.

The modern world is full of conspiratorial thinking: People see an event and come up with an extraordinary story, a “hidden truth” that explains everything. These extravaga ...

Mathematician and Computer Scientist Stephen Wolfram wants to do no less than revolutionising physics. He wants to do it with computer code that gives rise to all the fundame ...

Seasonal flu kills half a million people every year. But scientists may have found a drug that, while it won't stop you from getting the flu, could stop it from killing you.

The long story of human energy use revolves around two letters: H and C. These letters represent a pair of elements: hydrogen ...