Naegleria amoebas’ exploration skills and crawling behaviors could help explain how the brain-eating variety travel into ...

A female humpback whale may have spent days with her stillborn calf. This rare sighting may suggest that baleen whales ...

The 10th century treatment called Bald’s eyesalve attacks microbes in multiple ways. Molecule mixtures from it may inspire ...

Scientists testing potential treatments for sleep apnea made an unexpected discovery. How quickly people react may depend on ...

When periodical cicadas surface after years underground, they don’t grope blindly for trees. They head for the shadows, researchers report March 20 in the American Naturalist. A detailed analysis of ...

Scientists graded every river and stream in the contiguous United States, flagging specific repairs each one needs to support ...

Avian flu, overfishing, and a super El Niño have decimated Peru’s largest colony of Humboldt penguins. Scientists are holding ...

Season 2 follows people losing their ability to speak — and the AI and brain implants helping them find their voices again.

The rare fossil hints that differences in plumage may explain why some Cretaceous-era birds survived an asteroid impact but ...

Before the sun fully formed, tiny bits of rock were already recording the magnetic forces present in the very early solar ...

A record player-like microscope and computer simulations solve a longtime mystery, showing that metal ions bridge DNA strands ...

Daily sea surface temperatures in the region where El Niño develops are more extreme than at any point in recorded history.