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Air strikes on oil facilities and oil tankers in the Persian Gulf have unleashed what is set to become an ecological catastrophe, satellite images show.
A teen went to the emergency room with classic signs of diabetes, but odd aspects of her case pointed to a second, rarer diagnosis.
These matriarchal rodents often have bloody succession wars to replace their queen. But in a colony in California, Queen Tere ceded the throne to her
North American sweat bees change color depending on the surrounding humidity. It might be a more widespread phenomenon among insects.
In her debut book, science writer Roxanne Khamsi offers a new view of mutations that’s not limited to birth and death.
This image that NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured of the Crab Nebula, paired with its past observations and those of other telescopes, allows astronomers to
After nearly 50 years in space, the two Voyager spacecraft are very low on nuclear power. Voyager 1 just shut off another instrument to save
A future AI would have no need to rid the world of humanity because we’re incredibly useful. But if it did want to shrug us
Liver scarring can pave the way to cancer down the line. A new blood test in development might help doctors spot it.
Compressed air bids bye-bye to invasive sun corals in Brazil. The blasts obliterated soft tissue and fragments couldn’t regenerate.
Journalist Kevin Hartnett chronicles how code-checking tools and AI are being used to tackle difficult math problems.
More than 70% of the state is under “extreme” to “exceptional” drought conditions, and other parts of the U.S. Southeast are similarly affected. But why
A new study of a Neanderthal toddler reveals that our closest evolutionary relatives’ growth patterns differed from those of modern humans.
An alarming study claims the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation is weakening more than believed previously. But experts say its findings are far from the final
