Every year, Santa Claus races around the globe in a matter of hours to bring presents to children all over the world.

Part of the appeal of the Boyle myth may be that it promised a clean break: a waymark at which alchemy was cast aside and chemistry took over. But such changes rarely if ever happen in science, and ...

Meteors from the Ursids appear near the Little Dipper, which is part of the constellation Ursa Minor. Only skywatchers in the ...

A research team at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) is the first ever to observe a beta-delayed neutron emission ...

What will be the next blockbuster research to emerge from Princeton’s labs? No one can say for sure, but history tells us ...

NASA’s ESCAPADE mission launched two small, affordable orbiters to Mars on Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket. Discover how these ...

Using the XRISM space telescope, scientists spotted faint emissions of the elements in remnants of the Cassiopeia A supernova ...

The results indicate that the elements essential for life formed within extreme, highly energetic environments deep inside stars, far removed from the calm conditions required for life itself. The ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Here’s what to know about the other main types and how they affect the brain. By Dana G. Smith Alzheimer’s disease is the most commonly diagnosed form of dementia, but it’s far from the only one. In ...

Spending lots of time with family around the holidays can be wonderful... until it isn’t. If you’ve ever hit a moment on day three or four of a family visit when everything suddenly feels like too ...

Two National Guard members were shot in broad daylight on Wednesday — allegedly by an Afghan national who once assisted U.S. forces — in what officials described as a “targeted” attack just blocks ...