By studying chickadee cognition in the wild, researchers learned smarter birds stay smart in old age, produce more young and ...

Teeth and bone fragments unearthed in a cave in China, along with animal bones and stone tools, help paint a picture of Denisovan life.

An analysis of sound-making structures on preserved wings reveals the mating calls of ancient Jurassic insects, re-creating ...

AI safety monitoring can fail when an AI’s reasoning is the main clue that something has gone wrong, new research suggests.

Ancient DNA confirms Miracinonyx trumani was more closely related to modern pumas than cheetahs and had a more varied diet ...

The biggest fibromyalgia genetics study yet zeroed in on 26 genetic risk factors for the pain disorder, including one in the ...

Scientists knew that sliding along surfaces gives water drops a charge. Those droplets can damage bridges, cars and more over ...

The universe’s first rocky planets may have gotten their start astonishingly early — perhaps only 100 million years after the ...

AI researcher and economist Hadi Hosseini of Penn State University has seen a similar effect in his own research into how AI ...

A hexagon darkens the clouds over Saturn’s north pole. Now, astronomers have found a similarly shaped atmospheric wave at the ...

Migraine prevention drugs are more targeted than ever before, and new guidelines may help doctors predict which will work for ...

A study of 70,000 earthquakes finds tiny tremors often precede larger fracking-linked quakes, offering a warning to halt ...