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

Even newer “minimally invasive” ideas, like stent-mounted electrodes deployed through blood vessels, still require a catheter ...

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

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

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

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

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 study found that unlike other vertebrates where competition generally suppresses speciation after ecological niches are ...

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 ...

Harnessing this energy could make voyages to the outer reaches of the Solar System — or even to neighboring stars — feasible ...

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

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