Roboticist Karen Liu combines machine learning and animation to teach robots to move and respond more like humans.

At a lab in the heart of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, scientists are breeding corals to be more resilient to rising ...

The merlin, sandhill crane, and pileated woodpecker were once rare in North America. Environmental conservation fueled their ...

Sooner or later, a sizable asteroid could impact a populated area on Earth. How is the US, and the world, preparing?

Unlocking the basic science of microbes, especially those that live in extreme environments, could help us find life ...

It took a lot of people to create the light bulb. But a process of mythmaking has flattened one man and elevated him to ...

Bats are understudied in West Africa. An ecologist couple is building a network of bat conservationists to boost research and ...

The debate over the existence of extraterrestrial life touches literature, religion, and science in 17th century Europe.

Dr. Mary-Claire King was the first to link a gene to hereditary cancer risk with the identification of BRCA1 in the 1990s.

The greater honeyguide learned to lead humans to beehives, luring them with the promise of honey so they’d unlock the wax the ...

Octopuses can use their suckers to detect harmful microbes on the surface of objects like crab shells, or their own eggs. Plus, a new book charts the millennia-old history of our fascination with ...

A new book charts the millennia-old history of our fascination with aliens, and how myth transformed into research.