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There are around 66,000 species of rove beetles and one researcher proposes it's because of one special gland.
Scientists may have just cracked the code for male birth control.
Scientists have revived 7,000-year-old algae from Baltic Sea sediments, pushing the limits of resurrection ecology.
ChatGPT doesn't have any political agenda but some unknown factor is causing a subtle shift in its responses.
Science and policy are never truly free from one another. But one country's policy doesn't typically cross borders.
Climate change is disrupting natural cycles.
The answer is 142 billion. Plus or minus a few, of course.
So, umm, AI is not your friend — literally.
“I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself,” he said.
Yes. You read that correctly. The Stupid Hackathon is an event like no other.
As it turns out, a bad microphone may be standing between you and your next job.
Chimpanzees select and engineer tools with surprising mechanical precision to extract termites.
“It’s an entirely new phase of matter.”
This year, the Abel Prize — the field’s highest honor — has been awarded to Masaki Kashiwara, prolific Japanese mathematician whose work has quietly reshaped how we understand some of the most complex equations in existence. The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters announced the award “for his fundamental contributions to algebraic analysis and representation […]
Scientists uncover surprising evidence that the Kerguelen hotspot, responsible for the 5,000-kilometer-long Ninetyeast Ridge, exhibited significant motion.
Charity in the 14th century, like now, was as much about storytelling and perceived worth as about need.
Penis etchings -- the longstanding hallmark of military troops.
Attacks on science are rarely signs of something good.
The more you try to get AI to talk about what it's doing, the sneakier it gets.
One bear. Six years. One hidden history of pollution brought to light by a laser.
This $27,500 robot is the latest in a series of humanoid robots that have hit the market.
A silent but deadly epidemic is creeping through North America and scientists are sounding the alarm.
Happiness is hard or maybe even impossible to truly measure. Yet every year, researchers try to do it anyway. The World Happiness Report, an annual ranking that crunches vast amounts of Gallup polling data, has once again crowned Finland the happiest country on Earth. The 2025 rankings tell an intriguing story: Nordic countries dominate, the […]
Cats are beloved family members in tens of millions of households, but we know surprisingly little about their genes.
Apparently, Sierra Leone is both very round and quite rectangular.
mRNA vaccines were first developed years ago to target cancers and now they're really starting to show promise.
A new study suggests that an optimized AI model could detect harmful social media comments with 87% accuracy.
If today's Universe were an adult human, at 380,000 years old it would be only a few hours old.
Lung cancer often goes undetected until it’s too late. But a new urine test developed by Cambridge scientists could change that.
This new method of converting sewage sludge cuts CO2 emissions by 99.5% compared to conventional methods.
Some Pro Life advocates may actually be subconsciously more fixated on the lives of the parents.
An old hardware choice means that the music is speeding up with the passing years.
Tariffs, market jitters, and history’s lessons all paint a concerning economic picture.
Jay Bhattacharya, a Stanford professor with no experience treating patients, is set to become the director of the NIH.
Before bees, there were beetles
With a declining workforce, Japan is serving as the test bed for robotic assistants in many fields.
The Arctic Ocean is more than just icy waters, it harbors vibrant ecosystems — but it also harbors valuable oil, gas, and rare earth elements.
A new study found that machine drying costs U.S. households over $7 billion annually.
Alcohol use is affecting more than just its consumers, and more than we thought.
A new study confirms the idea: the sound from wind turbines just doesn't make a difference.
In the perilous world of cephalopod romance, male blue-lined octopuses have evolved a shocking strategy to survive mating.
China's ghost cities aren't just an economic puzzle — they're a major environmental issue.
Millions of Americans have been exposed to a mass shooting.
Whales migrate great distances and, as they travel, create nutrient superhighways in our oceans.
While you thought you were training your Pikachu, you were actually training AI to see the world.
Hidden in the abyss of the Atacama Trench, Dulcibella camanchaca reveals itself as a unique predator adapted to the darkness.
“While directly editing game files might seem unconventional, there are no explicit restrictions against modifying files,” the AI said.
Eurasian coots are unknowingly creating plastic archives of the Anthropocene.
Musk has become the ultimate disinformation machine.
From a groundbreaking find to a global disaster. This is how one species and human error endangered amphibians everywhere.
