Scientists apparently underestimated the aggression of itty-bitty male fiddler crabs when they deployed a friendly robot version during mating season. In a...

Building on the Moon? This solar-powered machine makes the idea more real than ever.

For 25 years, scientists have studied “SuperAgers”—people aged 80 and above whose memory rivals those decades younger.

If confirmed, this might help solve a long-standing mystery about our Sun.

It's August, which means Hot Science Summer is two-thirds over. This week, NASA released an exceptionally pretty photo of Mars, a sharp panorama color altered to make the sky blue (???). California health authorities are warning hunters and trappers about con…

Motherhood is one of nature’s most selfless and beautiful instincts, and not only humans but other animals too experience it. Here are 7 animals that are known to adopt babies if other species, and it shows that their love has no bounds:

Four new species of tarantula have been discovered – and if they knew the name they were going to get, they might have presented themselves sooner.

Scientists used IBM's R2 Heron quantum processor to predict the secondary protein structure of a 60-nucleotide-long mRNA sequence.

A long-quiet fault in Canada is building toward a major earthquake. The only problem? No one knows when it will strike.

Once dismissed as “junk” DNA, ancient viruses embedded in the human genome play a key role in early human development, research finds.

Scientists in Austria have achieved what sounds impossible: making time run backward—but only at the quantum level.

It was tested for its ability to adhere to the inside of the digestive tract.

Venus and Jupiter will meet in a conjunction in the early morning hours of Aug. 12. Here's everything you need to know to spot the two brightest planets at their best.

Typically a risk to those over 65, more young people are suffering strokes, studies show.

The robot is making leaps toward the future of planetary exploration.

The most striking images from the world of science this week: including an anniversary on Mars, a maze of 1.5 million books, and apes with a taste for alcoholic fruit.

A brainstem region helps punctuate memories. Stress may block its ability to mark new experiences. Although life unfolds in a continuous flow, our memories don’t capture it that way. We don’t recall the past as one seamless timeline but rather as a sequence o…

A new study reveals a surprising connection between Vincent van Gogh’s "The Starry Night" and the world of quantum physics.

On Tuesday, August 5, 2025, Earth completed its rotation slightly more slowly than usual, making the day fractionally longer. While the difference was imperceptible to people, scientists say the cause offers important clues about the forces influencing our pl…

Unusual variant has previously been confirmed only within the cosmic debris that hit Arizona’s Canyon Diablo 49,000 years ago.

A rare large planetary alignment will coincide with the Perseid meteor shower over Texas on August 10.

A scientist says fragments of a meteorite that punched through a Georgia homeowner's roof after blazing across the sky in a fiery streak is older than the Earth itself

"There's often an edge to the human eye on the seafloor."

The biomechanics of dinosaur skulls say T. rex was the king of bite force.

"This is the first time a feature of this scale and size has been found in a local galaxy cluster."