Imagine treating a brain disease with a jab in the arm instead of a hole in the skull. That’s the future a team at MIT is ...

Narwhals, one of the shyest and most sensitive whale species on Earth, keep slamming into it. At one site, it’s happening ...

Urban raccoons are developing significantly shorter snouts than their rural cousins. This suggests that raccoons are entering ...

For more than a century, we’ve treated the brain like a bustling high-rise office. The neurons act as the high-powered ...

In contrast, super-recognisers naturally excel at recognising faces. Studies also show they may be better than most of us ...

A new analysis of old Cassini data has also verified past detections of complex organics in Saturn’s E ring, strengthening ...

This summer’s release was the latest step in a years-long effort that began in 2012. Over the past decade, the Columbus Zoo ...

The universe is expanding. That much is clearer. But it’s less clear whether this expansion is accelerating or slowing down. At the heart of this upheaval lies the cosmic yardstick astronomers have ...

Feeding astronauts sustainably is one of the biggest challenges in long-duration spaceflight. ESA’s solution looks like a ...

“Our analysis shows that the solar system is moving more than three times faster than current models predict,” Böhme ...

The beaches of South Georgia, a remote splinter of ice and rock in the South Atlantic, should be a place of deafening, ...

CRISPR-based technology is advancing rapidly, driving international competition. Its promise to transform medicine is colliding with political and social realities, even as applications expand.