Though the horned rabbits aren’t a danger to humans or pets, Van Hoose advises people to keep their distance from the ...

Life expectancy has risen dramatically since 1900, reshaping how we understand aging. Scientists now view skin not just as a ...

The U.S. planetary science community is sounding the alarm about plans to discard a nuclear technology that has powered ...

Hannah Richter is a freelance science journalist based in Washington, D.C. She writes about Earth, space and science policy ...

A new brain prosthesis can read out inner thoughts in real time, helping people with ALS and brain stem stroke communicate ...

Meltwater from a glacier lake outburst is flooding Juneau, Alaska. Such events are likely to happen more often as climate ...

Spiders from the Uloboridae family, usually just a few millimeters long, have puzzled scientists because they seemed to lack venom—a substance that is widespread among spiders and “really linked to ...

Studies show that writing or expressing what we are feeling can help adults mentally and physically. Kids are no different ...

Researchers are alarmed that an expansive executive order issued by President Donald Trump might upend a long-standing ...

All mainstream credit card numbers obey a mathematical trick designed to catch the most common typos. It’s called the Luhn ...

This telescope has revealed the whipped-up dust from the birth of a star—and a shining background galaxy—more clearly than ...

Experts say the painful infection, spread to people from mosquitoes, can get to many countries if it finds the right hosts ...