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

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

Ancient hunter-gatherers in East Asia are remarkably similar, genetically, to modern people living in the area. Unlike what ...

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

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

New evidence may resolve a longstanding archaeological puzzle in Peru. A vast line of thousands of holes dug into a ridge in the foothills of the Andes Mountains served as a regional marketplace for ...

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

The biggest beasts to walk the Earth had humble beginnings. The first dinosaurs were cat-sized, lurking in the shadows, just waiting for their moment. That moment came when four major pulses of ...

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

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

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