It’s Nightmare on Nerd Street—and your science-inspired Halloween costume could win SciFri’s first-ever costume contest.

A new group of social media-savvy wildlife artists is bringing a beloved conservation tradition to TikTok. It’s ruffled some feathers.

The White House’s autism announcement exaggerates links to Tylenol, misleads on vaccines, and sets back the field by ignoring decades of research, scientists say.

Member states back campaign for governments and organisations to use map that accurately depicts continent The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organisations of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world in favour of one that more accurately displays Africa’s size. Created by the cartographer Gerardus Mercator for navigation, the projection distorts continent sizes, enlarging areas near the poles like North America and Greenland while shrinking Africa and South America. “It might seem to be just a map, but in reality, it is not,” the African Union Commission deputy chair, Selma Malika Haddadi, told Reuters, saying the Mercator fostered a false impression that Africa was “marginal”, despite being the world’s second-largest continent by area, with more than 1 billion people. The union has 55 member states. Continue reading...

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When ticks bite us, they release thousands of proteins through their saliva. Could a vaccine for the right ones stop ticks from latching on?

President Donald Trump said his team will move forward with winding down much of the Federal Emergency Management Agency — but not until after a hurricane season that some projections show could be pa...

Since 2014, a virus related to polio has paralyzed hundreds of children. Amid government cuts, what happens if the outbreaks worsen?

For at least half a century, the National Weather Service has been an around-the-clock operation. That is no longer possible in parts of the country.

Pests are ravaging keystone species like ash, elm, and beech. But researchers are breeding the survivors into more resilient populations.

Vocal researchers are learning how death metal singers safely produce extreme vocal distortions, in hopes of improving vocal health care.

With cameras down their throats, metal singers show how they produce growls, screams, and squeals without damaging their vocal tissues.

Researchers find 89% of people around the world want more to be done, but mistakenly assume their peers do not

Emergency response experts say that funding and staff cuts at the National Weather Service could mean less reliable weather forecasts.

As the impacts of climate change and other threats mount, conservationists are racing to preserve endangered plant species in botanical garden “metacollections” in the hope of eventually returning the...

Changes limiting programs, grants, and even the nature of studies are already underway at the NIH, NSF, FDA, CDC, and more.

The small city of Clarkston, Georgia can teach us a lot about the problems immigrants face in the U.S. health care system.