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 ...

Artificial intelligence chatbots don’t judge. Tell them the most private, vulnerable details of your life, and most of them ...

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

Ancient teeth found in Ethiopia belong to a never-before-seen species in the Australopithecus genus of human ancestors ...

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 ...