This year's cuttlefish season has been unlike any other. Every winter, more than 100,000 giant Australian cuttlefish can ...

Hundreds of Venus-like planets could soon help determine why some worlds become sweltering greenhouse hellscapes while others ...

Mirrors normally reveal what is placed in front of them, even when their curvature distorts a reflection. Researchers at the ...

Children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) often struggle with executive functions—tasks involving ...

At the top and bottom of the planet, the seasons arrive on a schedule all their own. Satellite data from a mission measuring ...

Scientists—and dog lovers—have long known that dogs are remarkably good at interpreting our laughs, frowns and tears. But the biology behind this ability has remained largely unexplored until now. In ...

Decades of selective breeding and intensive agricultural practices have reshaped cattle genetics—often at the expense of ...

The child who plays alone during recess may be perfectly content doing so, according to a new study from the University of Georgia. The research found that some elementary school children who appear ...

Skyrmions—essentially magnetic vortices—represent a promising approach in spintronics; in the future, they could serve as components in storage media or computers, potentially complementing ...

Verheij syndrome is a rare genetic disorder caused by the impairment of splicing, a critical process in RNA processing. Using the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans, researchers at the Max Planck ...

Scientists have described a new species of lizard from the high mountain forests of western Thailand and have given it a name straight out of an American fantasy drama television series: Acanthosaura ...

A changing climate increases the health risks posed by extreme weather. However, according to the 2024 Yale Climate Opinion Maps, only 47% of U.S. survey participants believed that global warming ...