To try to make a dent in this problem, Tepper and her colleagues genetically engineered zebra fish and fruit flies so that ...

AI systems could show signs of consciousness. We need to develop better tests to show whether they are actually aware ...

“In space no one can hear you scream.” If space were truly empty—an utter vacuum, devoid of any matter—then yes, the Alien ...

For a study in Science Advances, researchers crafted a robotic arm, and a joysticklike controller to operate it, from pork gelatin and plant cellulose—materials sturdy enough to function yet delicate ...

S ammy Ramsey was having a hard time getting information. It was 2019, and he was in Thailand, researching parasites that ...

I find all these constructions very interesting, and this latest one is very interesting as well.” Supermazes would inhabit black holes that weren’t truly black holes. Instead they’d be fuzzballs: ...

The Trump administration is freezing, delaying and revoking funding for dementia research, setting back discoveries of ...

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Nicknamed the “bone collector,” this newly confirmed caterpillar in Hawaii secretly scrounges off a spider landlord by covering itself with dead insect body parts ...

Holt, one of Magellan’s offshore managers, said the aim was to test the physical requirements and environmental impacts of ...

Hypochlorous acid is safe enough to spray in your eyes yet more effective than bleach. Why isn’t it everywhere?

A person who died of the bird flu in Louisiana in December illustrates that point: Scientific evidence suggests that bird flu viruses evolved inside the patient, gaining mutations that may make the ...