The world's oceans are the hottest on record for June, pushing past records set during the 2023–24 El Niño years.

A rat first frees a cagemate rat and then shares food with it. Is this animal just as empathetic as humans? In an American ...

An international team led by Stefanie Komossa from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn has studied a ...

A Japanese space probe performed a flyby of a near-Earth asteroid on Sunday in a test mission for technology that could help ...

When analyzing crime, the foreign population typically shows higher rates than the native population. However, crime ...

Scientists have long posited that the earliest water animals to transition to land had amphibious tadpole features, going ...

As consumer interest grows in foods and beverages with added nutritional value, brewers are exploring ways to improve ...

An international team, including the University of Tokyo, has created a sensor inspired by the lateral line in fish—their ...

Astronomers have uncovered a pair of giant planets that are lighter than cotton candy—super-puffs the size of Jupiter.

Where would you go to watch a star being born? Probably not the heart of the Milky Way, which is about the most violent neighborhood our galaxy has to offer, a maelstrom of gas churning so fast and so ...

The warblers—those harbingers of spring in the U.K.—have an unappreciated talent of a different sort. Common U.K. birds, including chiffchaffs and blackcaps, are playing a real role in the pollination ...

Humans and great apes have been giggling in similar ways since branching off the evolutionary tree, a new study suggests.