Called Olbers’ paradox, the seemingly simple mystery of the sky’s darkness is something that stumped astronomers for ...

Female chimps who migrate to new social groups bring skills and technology with them, helping to drive development of ...

A finger-sized clay cylinder from a tomb in northern Syria appears to be the oldest example of writing using an alphabet ...

Voters supported abortion rights measures while electing antiabortion candidates in the 2024 election. The split reflects a ...

The world we live in was built on horseback. Many people today rarely encounter horses, but this is a recent development. Only a few decades ago domestic horses formed the fabric of societies ...

Even before I could make out the silhouette of Platform Holly on the foggy horizon, I could see and smell oil. Ripples of iridescent liquid floated on the sea’s surface, reflecting the cloudy sky.

To calculate just how much generative AI contributes to this problem, Tzachor and his colleagues examined the type and volume ...

The fungal network hidden under fleshy, white king oyster mushrooms doesn’t just sprout elegant appetizers. It can also serve as a keen robotic sensor, helping to pilot a wheeled bot and a ...

Hypochondria can, in extreme cases, leave people unable to hold down a job or make it impossible for them to leave the house, ...

The 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor known as Lucy sparked a revolution in scientists’ understanding of the origins of ...

But formal AI assistants could empower larger groups of human collaborators to tackle the biggest problems by breaking them ...

From long and winding migration flights to intricate songs and clever tool use, many bird behaviors are known to be transmitted socially and persist across generations—what scientists define as ...