Scientists have described a novel, yet benign bone-covered growth's characteristics for doctors, so patients don't receive ...

Cosmology and quantum physics both offer tantalizing possibilities that we inhabit just one reality among many. But testing ...

Scientists have long focused on quantifying fear and other negative emotions in animals. Now they’re trying to measure ...

Nancy Shute discusses how scientists are beginning to study animals’ emotions and personalities — from joy to individual ...

But only in the last 70 years have we known for certain they were there. In 1956, physicists Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines ...

An array of animals and plants survive winter in the subnivium, nature’s igloo. But climate change is threatening this hidden ...

Brain scans show a spot in the cerebellum attuned specifically to words, expanding on studies that point to the region's ...

The work suggests early Homo sapiens developed enduring artistic practices as they moved through the islands of Southeast ...

As the threat of falling spacecraft increases, using earthquake sensors to detect the effects of their sonic booms could ...

Veronika the cow uses a brush as a tool to scratch herself, revealing rare problem-solving skills and expanding what we know ...

The robot can bend, grasp and carry in ways humans can’t, which could help it navigate spaces too confined for human arms.

On a talus-strewn slope in eastern California’s mountains, a gnarled tree twists toward the sky. It is Methuselah, a Great ...