More than a month into the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, no suspects have been named. Two men were briefly detained for ...

During hibernation, brown bears spend up to six months lying almost completely still, without eating, drinking or exercising.

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Looking at beauty—whether art, architecture, nature, or music—releases the same feel-good chemicals as being in love, eating chocolate, or exercising.

Seabirds are among the indicator species that provide rich insight into the health of their ecosystems. This week we share an edited excerpt from Eric Wagner’s new book, “Seabirds as Sentinels: ...

Found in a 16th-century copy of an ancient astronomy treatise, the annotations suggest that the trailblazing scientist ...

Tiny particles bounce light around in a unique way, a property that researchers are using to detect pollutants in water and soil samples.

The specimens that Charles Darwin brought back from his journey on the HMS Beagle are still preserved in liquid in the ...

The 2026 Priestley Medalist and Nobel laureate struggled with finding her way through school before achieving the greatest feats in science ...

Some say we’ve entered a new age of AI-enabled scientific discovery. But human insight and creativity still can’t be ...

When a patient shared the story of her sister’s death, an AI captured the clinical details—freeing physician Christopher Sharp to just be present ...

Physicists artificially slowed down time to reveal the bizarre Terrell-Penrose effect, a consequence of special relativity. This image from the experiment shows a sphere seemingly moving at 99.9 ...