Historic data and predictions suggest cases will rise in East Africa and southern regions, while the threat may ease in West ...

In the movie Whalefall, a sperm whale accidentally swallows a scuba diver. It’s technically possible, but unlikely to play ...

The surface of ice is a slippery subject. For more than 160 years, scientists have been debating the quirks of ice’s exterior. Frozen water is coated in a layer of molecules that behave like a liquid.

For decades, researchers wondered if the Navier-Stokes equations, which describe fluid flow, break down. OpenAI put thousands ...

Associate News Editor at Science News. She previously worked as an assistant editor at The Atlantic and a health reporter at TIME, where she covered reproductive health, FDA and the wellness industry ...

Shingrix, the same vaccine that protects people from the blistering shingles rash, might also lower risk of heart disease.

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

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

Forever chemicals are accelerating aging in wild dolphins. Companies are working to clean PFAS from water at scale.

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

In recent years, drugs that help the immune system fend off tumors have given many patients new options for treating their ...

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