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 ...

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

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

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

Found in Alaska, the roughly 10,000-year-old bone bolsters the idea that early human settlers took a coastal rather than inland route. A drop in CO2 levels helped massive plant eaters called ...

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.

Making social connection part of job design, whether people work remotely, hybrid or in-person, is key to supporting ...

The deep-sea octopus is fully mature despite fitting in a palm, a trait researchers think may help it reproduce faster than ...

Books about dinosaurs, the Milky Way and the coronavirus are among the Science News staff’s picks for must-read books of the ...

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