Fruit flies react strangely when gravity gets stronger. For humans, a fruit fly weighs almost nothing. Yet when scientists ...

The tablet known as Plimpton 322, dated to around 1800 BCE, contains 15 rows of numbers linked to Pythagorean triples ...

For years, the great hope in Alzheimer’s research has been that if scientists could clear the brain of Alzheimer’s physical changes, memory might stop slipping away. The main targets were the ...

A new study suggests that about 59,000 years ago, someone used a small stone tool to drill into a badly decayed tooth, remove ...

Unitree, the Chinese robotics company best known for humanoid robots doing flips, kung fu, and other viral stunts (Chinese ...

The Sturtian glaciation was one of the most extreme climate events in Earth’s history. Beginning around 717 million years ago ...

A new conservation idea in Borneo is turning wildlife sightings into income. In Kapuas Hulu district in Indonesia’s West ...

The National Interagency Fire Center predicts elevated wildfire potential across much of the West and many Southeast states ...

From live speech translation in video calls to auto-dubbing on TikTok, the technology to dissolve language barriers has arrived. Real-time translation powered by artificial intelligence (AI) is now ...

For thousands of years, water in the high Andes carried a mortal hidden danger. The water gushing from streams and groundwater around the volcanic landscape looked clear enough. It came from streams ...

Cancer cells travel through the blood like restless seeds, searching for places to take root. Yet one organ they almost never ...

Before trinitite, the only known naturally formed quasicrystal came from meteorite fragments, likely produced during a ...