A famous prediction that microchips improve exponentially over time can be applicable in unrelated developments, such as the ...

Cats hate water, but they love fish—and these two stereotypes contradict each other. Although today’s furry house rulers can ...

As the U.S. presence has decreased, though, other countries have been pouring more resources into the Antarctic. And although ...

The “Raygun” Olympics fiasco points to how hip-hop scholarship is at risk of being colonized and undermined in academia ...

The immune systems of men and women are known to display key differences. Men are, broadly speaking, more vulnerable to viral infections such as COVID and influenza. Women mount a stronger response to ...

Summer has been brutally hot in the Southwest, toppling records set just last year, and the heat isn’t over yet ...

Scientists have long suspected that a see-through substance known as dark matter suffuses the cosmos, keeping the fabric of our universe from tearing. But what exactly dark matter is made of remains a ...

The octopus sex chromosome appears to have been maintained over hundreds of millions of years, making it the most ancient of ...

The Federal Trade Commission is studying how companies use consumer data to charge different prices for the same product ...

The Oropouche virus, which causes a disease nicknamed “sloth fever” for one of the animals that can be infected, has seen its ...

Across the U.S., kids are headed back to their classrooms—just as COVID nears a fresh, late-summer peak. Somehow, four years ...

The circle of life is beautiful and gruesome—sometimes so gruesome that it makes the fossil record downright macabre, millions of years after the fact. That’s what happened with an ancient ...