Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft and a renowned philanthropist, has always emphasized the importance of science and ...

1. In the contentious and polarizing world of politics, it isn’t surprising for a memoir to spark both rage and delight. The world of science is supposed to be more reasoned, objective—and staid. So ...

In 2018, Dr. Claudia Gonzaga-Jáuregui, who years before had completed her doctorate studies in Dr. James R. Lupski's lab at Baylor College of Medicine, received an email from an editor at Elsevier's ...

Bruno Rozzi had just finished his sophomore year as a finance student at ASU when he came across a genetics book he had read once in high school. Two years later, he was in a rainforest in Panama ...

Scientists are delving deeper and deeper into the complexities of the human genome, and developing an increasingly clear picture of how to prevent and treat diseases with roots in our DNA. The stories ...

Science Friday featured 35 books on the program this year. Here’s a recap of some of this year’s most exciting science titles. Every year, Science Friday interviews authors about their new ...

Max Telford translated the technical effort behind studying evolution into a relatable story for every reader in The Tree of Life: Solving Science’s Greatest Puzzle.

When descendants of ancient fish first hauled themselves onto dry land, they didn’t do so with lungs evolved specifically for that reason. The need to breathe air ultimately led to a change in the ...

Another year is in the books. And whether you got out more this year or continued precautionary staying at home, we hope you at least got some good reading done. If not, you still have a whole winter ...

Whether you're interested in space travel, the inner workings of the universe, the mind of a brilliant mathematician or human behavior and the dark life of a patient who underwent a lobotomy, Live ...