Using lunar ice to make rocket fuel could help future lunar settlements sustain themselves and provide a launch pad for ...

Tech companies are claiming machines more intelligent than us and capable of having their own agendas are just around the ...

Reyhaneh Maktoufi loves a good story. She uses it to make sense of the world. Her own storytelling style leans into humor. “As most people who are artists will tell you, I often scribbled in a ...

A new study reveals that whale song and human languages share features that make them easier to learn. Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) are known for their complex songs. New research suggests ...

Life as we know it depends upon biodiversity, which is why the Campaign for Nature seeks to protect at least 30 percent of the planet by 2030. To save the diversity and abundance of life on Earth, the ...

In May 2020, Pratyusha Sharma was painstakingly parsing data to prepare for a meeting with her research group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, hoping to find a pattern. It wasn’t just any ...

Aerial view of the Amazonian jungle on a flight from La Paz to Rurrenabaque, 2014. OpenAI has announced the winners of a its 'OpenAI to Z Challenge' that hopes to help archaeologists cut through the ...

You can see it in the logarithmic whorl of a nautilus. The milky iridescence of an abalone. The spiked turret of a queen conch. Precision, elegance, strength. The seashell is a consonance of form and ...

New species of the plants are still being discovered, and their parasitic biology is being probed for potential cancer ...

Even as the temperatures outside continue their upward climb, many office workers are stocking up on sweaters and blankets. Overly air-conditioned workplaces mean that many workers—disproportionately ...

Futurist Michio Kaku sees humans doing ballet on Mars and projecting their brains into the cosmos. And aliens? Oh, they're coming.

Unlike its interior cousins, gray wolves of Vancouver Island live with two paws in the ocean and two paws on land.