Optogenetics, recognized by the 2026 medicine Nobel, makes cells respond to light, including eye cells that normally relay ...

A decades-old claim linking caregiving stress to risk of death has stuck around, hampering research into its benefits. But ...

Herugavialis is the new name for a fossil found in the same rocks that built the Great Sphinx. The reptile is a unique branch ...

Fresh boulder tracks on Mars could reveal how a quake shook the planet and help scientists detect future tremors from orbit.

Bigger bodies and wider beaks help birds like the bare-throated bellbird belt out calls louder than a jackhammer, but why ...

Microblazars — a miniature version of blazars — may be responsible for mysterious ultra-high-energy particles.

Scientists graded every river and stream in the contiguous United States, flagging specific repairs each one needs to support ...

A waterborne pathogen flourishes while toads shelter underground. The finding may help conservationists rethink how to ...

A female humpback whale may have spent days with her stillborn calf. This rare sighting may suggest that baleen whales ...

If you're one of those unfortunate souls who steps outside in shorts for thirty seconds and returns looking like a human ...

One theory points to a long-awaited supersymmetric particle called a ‘higgsino.’ But that idea has some issues.

Avian flu, overfishing, and a super El Niño have decimated Peru’s largest colony of Humboldt penguins. Scientists are holding ...