A new study finds that humans and AI spot different kinds of deepfakes — hinting at the need to team up to fight them.

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These parasitic beetle larvae lure in bees with complex floral aromas before hitching a ride back to their nests and eating their eggs.

A modeling study of Norway, which has high HPV vaccination coverage and uniform cervical cancer screening, suggests fewer ...

Not taking active measures to rein in the self-sabotage during the formative years of early adulthood can have repercussions in people’s professional and personal lives almost two decades later, the ...

“These are chemical weapons that are harmful to the human body and harmful to particularly vulnerable folks, like children,” ...

Nearly 1 in 8 dementia cases — about half a million nationwide — may be linked to insomnia. The new findings, reported December 27 in the Journals of Gerontology: Series A, add weight to growing ...

A new artificial lung system might keep people without lungs alive for weeks. Like real lungs, tubes and pumps oxygenate ...

New U.S. dietary guidelines promote eating full-fat foods and meats. But experts say nuts and seed oils are better sources of ...

Researchers are using X-rays to discover invisible markings left on ancient parchment containing information from the Greek ...

Polar bears can struggle to adapt to climate change. Bears on Svalbard may be surviving on land prey and seals — but scientists warn it may not last.

Pulsating remnants of stars hint at a clump of invisible matter thought to be about 10 million times the sun’s mass.