Category: Science

As artificial intelligence seeps into some realms of society, it rushes into others. One area it’s making a big difference is protein science — as

A new study from Yale University finds that singing to babies improves their overall mood. NPR wants to know what songs our listeners sing to

Clownfish in Papua New Guinea are temporarily shrinking in response to heat stress caused by climate change, a new study found. Here’s how that might

Scientists have discovered a star behaving like no other seen before, giving fresh clues about the origin of a new class of mysterious objects.

Researchers have found that cats spend longer sniffing a stranger’s odor than their owner’s odor, suggesting they can distinguish between familiar and unfamiliar humans from

In 1994, an earthquake of a proof shook up the mathematical world. The mathematician Andrew Wiles had finally settled Fermat’s Last Theorem, a central problem

Gold mining in the Amazon removes so much water from the ground that it’s too hot and dry for seedlings to survive.

Italy’s Mount Etna has erupted in spectacular fashion, sending ash, gas, and other volcanic material high into the sky above Sicily. Watch footage of the

The “Ice Prince” burial sheds light on a toddler from a wealthy family who lived around 1,350 years ago in Bavaria, Germany.

June’s full ‘Strawberry Moon’ will be at its fullest on Wednesday, June 11, but the best time to see it will be at dusk on

New Balance 1080 v14: minor tweaks make an already great all-rounder an even better everyday shoe.

What if the solutions to some of Earth’s biggest problems could be found in some of its smallest creatures? That bet has led a team

NASA says climate change could decimate coral reefs by by 2050. And recent study in the journal Science Advances finds that clown fish in Papua

For hundreds of years sailors have told stories about miles of glowing ocean during moonless nights. This phenomenon is known as “milky seas,” but the