In sci-fi, AI can navigate the unknowns and — ideally — keep human travelers safe. But it’s not intelligent enough to do that ...

Clinical trial results show an experimental drug lowered tau levels in the brain and slowed some memory loss, but the data ...

Atmospheric rivers bring heavy rain and floods, but if they don’t come around, it could mean drought. A new global map ...

The Euclid space telescope discovery could help researchers understand how black holes grew so massive so quickly in the ...

Researchers exploring the origins of left-right dominance in the brain found no innately better motor skills on either side.

Two “superpuff” planets orbiting a sunlike star over 1,000 light-years from Earth are as big as Jupiter and as dense as ...

Terrestrial planets experience landslides in spades, and so do some moons, asteroids and comets. But — until now — they’ve ...

Proposed federal rules would rely on political appointees to decide how a lot of U.S. science gets done. History shows the ...

It’s not easy living the high life. Take it from the Andean leaf-eared mouse, Earth’s highest-dwelling mammal. To tolerate ...

The HER Salt Lake Contraceptive Initiative’s approach, which centered the user and made refills easy, meant all types of ...

Two studies of Neandertal remains suggest their newborns were about the same size as those of modern humans but developed ...

There might be a way to geoengineer El Niño so that it wreaks less havoc, scientists say. Adding aerosols to the atmosphere over a particular patch of the Pacific Ocean can increase and brighten ...