A 2-million-year-old skull fragment from South Africa may be an adult Homo erectus, predating previously discovered fossils ...

A new study from Penn State suggests that while artificial intelligence may sound confident when making life-or-death medical decisions, that confidence may be exactly what makes it dangerous. When ...

There's a new cat in town, but this one won't curl up on your hamper, knead your sweaters or squeeze in front of your screen ...

Your friend orders one spicy margarita and announces, half joking, that she “has an addictive personality” so she has to stop ...

Penn State’s microbiome sciences dual-title doctoral program has reached a milestone with the graduation of its first student ...

Scientists are always thinking up crazy experiments to push our knowledge forward, and injecting human brain cells into mice ...

Horticultural Science Professor Massimo Iorizzo, whose research has delved into the genetics of a veritable rainbow of small ...

On the right is a depiction of an early Homo human ancestor characterized by relatively greater bone strength of the femur in the thigh compared to the humerus in the arm. To the left is a depiction ...

A team of ophthalmologists in China has put some of the world’s most powerful artificial intelligence chatbots through one of ...

Using electroencephalography, or EEG, which measures electrical activity in the brain, the researchers looked at whether the ...

Whether it's 'walkies' or 'dinner' dogs seem to have a knack for picking out the words they want to hear. Now, scientists ...

Metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is one of the deadliest solid cancers, portending poor patient outcomes ...