A new group of Australian insects now carries Taylor Swift's name, Swiftiephylus, and her signature blonde hair and red ...

AI chatbots make life-or-death choices differently from humans, especially when moral trade-offs and uncertainty complicate ...

When you can't tell which task matters, the multitasking brain keeps details it should drop and mixes them into the ones it ...

A new interactive map reveals when individual glaciers around the world are expected to disappear – and how global warming ...

A huge 390-million-year-old impact crater in Quebec was spotted by an amateur astronomer while planning a camping trip.

Microbes on the skin change as a person ages, along with skin function and condition. Those changes track frailty more than ...

Cocoa harvests may depend heavily on intense rain during flowering, giving researchers a possible way to forecast bad crop ...

Researchers engineered an enzyme that can attack polyurethane shoe foam, one of the hardest plastics to recycle.

Anger, compassion, and hope can shape climate attitudes, but a real-money experiment found they did little to motivate actual ...

A giant volcanic eruption buried an ancient landscape beneath the Andes, preserving evidence that reveals how slowly the ...

A global analysis found that children face overlapping poverty, undernutrition, and missed schooling, but not equally within ...

Archaeologists uncovered more than 40,000 Roman coins in three buried jars, offering a rare glimpse into household money use around 1,700 years ago.