New AI models are accelerating the game of cat-and-mouse as cybersecurity experts try to keep ahead of would-be hackers. An ...

The enormous deep-sea cousins of your garden’s pill bugs can go five years without food. A gene they pilfered from bacteria ...

The organic molecules could come from life or from ordinary chemistry — only samples returned to Earth can settle it.

Scientists thought angiosperms didn’t use animals to spread seeds until after the Age of Dinosaurs. Fossilized fruits from ...

Iron and hydrogen peroxide trigger cell death via ferroptosis, which cascades killer molecules through the population, ...

Newborn mice neurons can snap both DNA strands to migrate, then repair the breaks within a day. The process may be a normal ...

At least a dozen animals have been found with the flesh-eating maggots. It could take more than a year to eradicate the ...

Before now, the earliest evidence of the use of fire by hominids was from the same cave — the Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa ...

A newly-described dinosaur, Jian changmaensis, may have glided through northwestern China about 120 million years ago, ...

The fungus has another unusual means of spread: Cats can sneeze out infectious yeast, researchers reported in Medical ...

Emerging research suggests overusing digital devices can be harmful, especially to mental health. But does being overly ...

Researchers were unsure whether alpha particles would aid or hinder fusion. Simulations suggest they help, by dampening ...