Sperm whales are known to socialize, but scientists were stunned when they saw a group of sperm whales gather as one of them ...

On Earth, human sperm tend to know where to go when it comes to fertilizing an egg in utero. But that may not be the case in ...

Security feeds and traffic cameras have helped guide some of the most audacious targeted killings in modern history. Security ...

Participants in the new study, which was published today in Science, preferred the sycophantic AI models to other models that gave it to them straight, even when the flatterers gave participants bad ...

Skin conditions such as psoriasis often flare up in the same spots throughout one’s life. Now scientists think they know why ...

More than 1,500 mathematicians are demanding that their field’s most prestigious meeting be moved from the U.S.

People are buying helmets, face masks, vests and beds that emit long-wavelength light. Beneath the hype, there is some ...

The Arctic sea ice maximum this year effectively tied for the lowest ever on record, with major implications for polar ecosystems and global warming ...

A start-up has surprised the scientific community with a breakthrough: translating a modern proof into a programming language ...

NASA’s Swift space telescope is doomed to burn up in Earth’s atmosphere later this year. A daring mission to boost it to ...

Climate scientist Kate Marvel talked to Scientific American about her decision to leave NASA amid federal government turmoil ...

New images captured by the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes show Saturn in both visible and infrared light ...