The robot can bend, grasp and carry in ways humans can’t, which could help it navigate spaces too confined for human arms.

On a talus-strewn slope in eastern California’s mountains, a gnarled tree twists toward the sky. It is Methuselah, a Great ...

Veronika the cow uses a brush as a tool to scratch herself, revealing rare problem-solving skills and expanding what we know ...

From bold foxes to gregarious birds, animals’ personalities are increasingly being seen as crucial to conservation efforts.

The rockhead poacher is a little fish with a big pit in its head. The divot may be like a drum, making sound that rises above ...

Seismic tremors reveal a shallow fragment of ancient tectonic plate beneath Northern California, helping explain damaging ...

For the first time, the three-year average global temperature was more than 1.5 degrees C above preindustrial temps.

Nicola Dell, a computer scientist studying the role of technology in intimate partner violence, cofounded the Center to End ...

Flower designs on 8,000-year-old Mesopotamian pots reveal a “mathematical knowledge” perhaps developed to share land and ...

Arabian cheetah mummies' DNA reveals that the long-lost population could be closely replaced by a cheetah population in ...

A large U.S. health records study suggests that difficulty seeing blood in urine may put color-blind patients at higher risk.

A 67-million-year-old claw fossil reveals a new dinosaur species that may have used its hand spikes to snatch and pierce eggs ...