In a first, researchers genetically modified hookworms. It’s a step toward turning the parasites into living pharmacies.

The fresh fecal smell is a sign of science. The pellets contain fragments of DNA from the squirrels’ diet that paint a ...

During courtship, male scissor-tailed nightjars crack their wings together to make a sharp snapping sound. It's the result of ...

The result is correct but challenges core norms of mathematics: checking proofs, crediting ideas and keeping research open to ...

In a clinical trial, an experimental antibody reduced lean-mass loss in people on a GLP-1 drug. Whether that improves health ...

A tiny elephant establishes a new stomping ground for 3-D printing: inside cells. For the first time, scientists have 3-D printed objects within living cells, including a 10-micrometer long elephant ...

A new analysis of a 120-million-year-old fossil suggests at least one pterosaur species shimmered in iridescent greens and ...

Over more than a decade at Mars, the orbiter revealed how the solar wind strips away the planet’s atmosphere — and why the ...

A shrimp vaccine for commercial use could protect the environment and prove vaccines aren’t just for vertebrates.

Queen-cell wax helps shape honeybee queen development, challenging the idea that royal jelly alone makes a queen, a new study ...

Physicist Richard Feynman turned a lunch dilemma into a math problem. Researchers finally cracked his notes and found people ...

New observations suggest the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way’s core is blowing gas away from the central behemoth.