Amazon mollies don't need a man, and never will. A new study finds they can purge and repair genetic mutations that would ...

Long before today’s tree-dwelling sloths, a 4-ton giant roamed South America — and it may have stood and fought like a bear.

Videos aimed at pets are drawing millions of views. But who’s actually watching? By Emily Anthes Emily Anthes is a science reporter who writes Pet Theory, a column about our creature companions. Show ...

The confessed teen shooter in the Hedingham killings wrote in a note found at his home that he hated humans for destroying the planet and that he was sane at the time of the October 2022 mass shooting ...

The grieving parents of a Texas girl who drowned during a scuba certification class have filed a lawsuit against two agencies alleging the child’s death was preventable. On Aug. 16, 2025, 12-year-old ...

Update: In an apropos demonstration of why it’s difficult to get excited for space missions until they actually happen, NASA has reportedly delayed the Sunday launch of Artemis II after the threat of ...

A study using agentic artificial intelligence to detect early signs of cognitive decline in unstructured medical records found the technology achieved near-expert performance without any human ...

Humans won 2025 -- but only just. Artificial intelligence (AI) is gaining critical momentum for next year. Advertising executives may have afforded themselves a wry grin as 2025 draws to a close with ...

Stuck in front of our screens all day, we often ignore our senses beyond sound and vision. And yet they are always at work. When we're more alert, we feel the rough and smooth surfaces of objects, the ...