Protein is having a moment. But even if most people are eating enough protein, studies suggest they may not be eating the right mix.

The growth spurt hints that the free-floating object evolves like a star, providing clues about rogue planets’ mysterious origins.

The advance hints at the possibility of portable muon-making devices that could help peer through solid materials for hidden contraband.

Taste and smell are so intimately connected that a whiff of well-loved foods evokes their taste without any conscious effort. Now, brain scans and machine learning have for the first time pinpointed ...

In the 1980s, John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis demonstrated quantum effects in an electric circuit, an advance that underlies today’s quantum computers.

Sensor data reveal greater noctule bats chasing, catching and chewing on birds during high-altitude, nighttime hunts.

Ultraprocessed foods can create powerful pulls similar to those of alcohol, nicotine or opioids, with worrisome consequences for our health.

Richard Robson, Susumu Kitagawa and Omar Yaghi developed metal-organic frameworks, structures that can collect water from air, capture CO₂ and more.

Age and gender bias in online images feeds into AI tools, revealing stereotypes shaping digital systems and hiring algorithms, researchers report.

Some dogs love playing with toys so intensely they can’t stop—offering scientists a window into behavioral addictions.

A nearly 20,000-year-old woolly rhino horn reveals the extinct herbivores lived as long as modern-day rhinos, despite harsher Ice Age conditions.

The Nobel Prize might be the most famous science prize but it celebrates just a narrow slice of science and very few scientists.