One of the U.S.’s most decorated downhill skiers, Lindsey Vonn, revealed she almost had to have her leg amputated because of ...

The distinctive sound horses produce when they whinny is created by combining low and high pitch sounds together, like ...

Since ancient Greece, researchers have tried to isolate special rational points on curves. Now they have the first ever formula that applies uniformly to all curves ...

A recent study found an unexpected benefit of female caribou antlers: they can function like a vitamin for deer that have just given birth ...

Fresh observations from the James Webb Space Telescope show how vivid auroras surge through Uranus’s tilted magnetic field ...

Blizzards are a real-life example of what game theorists call the “snowdrift problem,” a cousin of the prisoner’s dilemma ...

Thousands of markings on objects made around 40,000 years ago may have been more than just doodles, a new analysis suggests ...

School is out as heavy, wet snow blankets parts of the Northeast. Though it will be a pain to shovel, it makes for perfect ...

Sasha Stiles turned GPT-2 experiments into a self-writing poem at a Museum of Modern Art installation—and a new way to think about text-generating AI optimization ...

Blizzard conditions can reduce visibility to less than 0.25 mile, which makes travel especially hazardous. New York City has ...

Federal freezes to foreign assistance are affecting grants for investigative reporters everywhere—but especially in poorer countries ...

A small design flaw in the medals for the Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina turned a durability promise into a very public stress test ...