In a proof-of-concept study, researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC and the California Institute of Technology ...

Understanding human gene function in living organisms has long been hampered by fundamental differences between species.

Black-capped chickadees have extraordinary brain power, with a memory that expands to hold new information for winter ...

This coral keeps time without a brain, showing how distributed nerve nets can synchronize movement across an entire animal.

Below are 25 expressions that have problematic origins.

Florida’s first state-sanctioned black bear hunt in a decade finished on December 28th, 2025. Arguments and backlash about ...

How old are you, really? People are flocking to so-called longevity clinics and buying tests online to find out their “biological age”—a metric that some scientists say could reveal how healthy a ...

Researchers identified chemical traces of poison on 60,000-year-old arrowheads, meaning the artifacts bear the oldest known evidence of arrow poison.

Optogenetics has long been a powerful experimental tool, but a growing body of research suggests it may now be approaching a ...

Scientists have turned to artifacts associated with Leonardo da Vinci on a quest to track down the legendary polymath’s ...

Examples abound of animals appearing to predict natural disasters, with anecdotes dating back as far as Ancient Greece, when ...