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Here are some of the most fascinating facts about animal moms, from naked mole rats to giraffes and octopuses

Mini models of the uterus lining give insight into mystery of how it is shed without scarring

Universities that run the National Center for Atmospheric Research want to keep it from being dismantled

Lindy Elkins-Tanton, principal investigator of NASA’s Psyche mission, explains in her new book how lessons from interplanetary exploration can help people solve problems together

A fire covering at least five square miles burned through the exclusion zone around the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster on Friday after two drones crashed into the area

The Pentagon has started releasing files related to unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), also called UFOs. Here are the images released so far

After decades of fighting for renewable energy, solar power is finally achieving economic dominance. But AI data centers threaten to consume those energy gains

The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment will study nature’s most mysterious particle a mile beneath South Dakota’s Black Hills and will potentially reveal the origins of matter

The Pentagon’s first UFO file release includes photographs, videos and documents gathered as part of an effort that spans several governmental offices and agencies, including the FBI, the White House and NASA

Virologist Jay Hooper is developing a vaccine for the rare rodent virus behind an outbreak on a cruise ship

AI models and people played “collaborative” Battleship to test strategies for efficiently solving problems

The problem with Pluto isn’t its planetary or nonplanetary status—it’s our insistence on declaring the world must be one or the other

As peptide “stacking” takes over social media feeds, we separate the science from the hype of the Internet’s latest wellness obsession

David Attenborough once directed programming at the BBC and has hosted numerous award-winning nature documentaries, but he’s always stayed down-to-earth, colleagues say

The Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases were designed to study viruses that could jump from animals to people, including hantavirus, but in 2025 the National Institutes of Health said the work wouldn’t continue

Stable rhythms of rest and activity are associated with healthier biological age markers, a new study suggests

Statistical principles show you don’t need a nefarious plot to explain clusters of missing scientists and lab workers

Haters gonna hate, hate, hate, but the Mars rover Curiosity just keeps on groovin’—even if its handlers had to spend several days freeing its drill from a rock

Earth's ancient climate is written in... ostrich eggshells and stomach oil?

The latest studies bring the number of remains identified from this doomed 1845 expedition to six of the 129 who set out to the Arctic