Researchers have finally traced the origin of the spotted ratfish’s bizarre forehead teeth, which are used for mating ...

Seeing and imagining use similar brain machinery. New research reveals the brain circuit that identifies what is real, which ...

Fresh treatments for rare skin diseases shift the focus from symptom management to repair and help children with such ...

Researchers are hoping to trick the immune system into fighting back against the bane of adolescents everywhere ...

How the Math of Shuffling Cards Almost Brought Down an Online Poker Empire Card dealers create a unique deck with each ...

A community science project finds that modest reminders to find joy in the day can have benefits that are on par with those ...

On Thursday Senators grilled Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., about vaccines and turmoil at the Centers for Disease Control and ...

“There’s a lot of meanings for ‘small,’” says Janet Conrad, a particle physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

Artificial-intelligence agents—touted as AI’s next wave—could be vulnerable to malicious code hidden in innocent-looking ...

A type of bacteria found in clean rooms has an unexpected method of survival, with implications for planetary protection ...

Our understanding of cosmology hinges on how well we know our own local universe, which remains poorly mapped and poorly ...

A map of DNA methylation changes in human organs—from the stomach to the retinas—could help researchers discover more targets ...