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Fish are surprisingly good in numbers tests — a skill that sometimes makes the difference between life and death.

A new drug inhibits a human enzyme that coronaviruses hijack in order to replicate.

Nike athlete and famed Peloton instructor Tunde Oyeneyin shares how she turned her pain into purpose.

It is through speaking and listening that human beings become who they are.

Police forces are choosing humans over algorithms to make some identifications.

The story of how Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune were made isn’t a universal one. Some gas giants were built different.

Flashy desalination technology is more costly and cumbersome than many other solutions.

The biology behind your office’s air conditioning war.

An evolutionary biologist explains why you probably won’t grow a tail.

Inspired by the group behaviors of simple animals, a team of roboticists has developed a new way for swarm robots to maneuver on land.

To hallucinate means you must first perceive.

Wolfgang Pauli was a brilliant, well-liked physicist and a scathing critic of balderdash.

Asteroid collisions aren’t always bad.

We evolved to be kind – and die for others.

It started with a bang, but won’t end with one. Instead, it will “rage against the dying of the light” like nothing you’ve ever imagined.

Synchronized activity between the hippocampus, prefrontal cortex, and thalamus plays a role in memory consolidation.

Over 50 years since humans last walked on the Moon, astronaut footprints and rover tracks are still visible. But they won’t last forever.

China has always been one of the world’s wealthiest nations, but Chinese wealth looks different across the country’s eventful history.

If there are human-sized creatures walking around on other planets, would we be able to view them directly?

CERN’s NA64 experiment used a high-energy muon beam technique to advance the elusive search for dark matter, offering new hope for solving one of astronomy’s greatest mysteries.

Where do you place precious brain resources?

Three fundamental forces matter inside an atom, but gravity is mind-bogglingly weak on those scales. Could extra dimensions explain why?

They could also “turn off” their fear.

Unless you have a critical mass of heavy elements when your star first forms, planets, including rocky ones, are practically impossible.

Amyloid plaque can build up in body organs other than the brain. The resulting diseases — AL amyloidosis, ATTR amyloidosis and more — cause much suffering.

Is blood the key to anti-aging, or just another lucrative biotech opportunity?

The information we have in the Universe is finite and limited, but our curiosity and wonder is forever insatiable. And always will be.

If there’s life lurking on the moons of Saturn and Jupiter, could our instruments even detect it?

Striking differences in the composition of the gut microbiome suggest that fermented food could help those suffering from anorexia.

Predictive power has perverse, anti-democratic consequences. So be a good citizen and lie to election pollsters.