Science

“I can’t do this,” the woman in her 60s said as she lowered herself into the 40° Celsius water that…

Denise Harrison was working at Bellevue Hospital in New York City on September 11, 2001. The hospital had cleared the…

Malaria, one of the world’s most prominent public health challenges, is on the move. A new study based on previous…

A long-lost cave in southwestern China has offered archaeologists their first real glimpse of Denisovan culture. Denisovans were a sister…

A mountain chickadee waking up in the Sierra Nevada range on a snowy morning has no time to dawdle. Weighing…

A symphony of insect songs rang through the Jurassic rainforest, and scientists have now found the traces of this ancient…

Safety concerns about AI are growing, and now, a common method for catching misbehaving systems could have flaws, new research…

Tens of thousands of years ago, a long-legged cat nicknamed the “American cheetah” prowled North America. But an analysis of…

Replacing human subjects with AI surrogates, or digital twins, is on some social scientists’ wish lists. Human subjects are expensive,…

Scientists watching the weather on Saturn have spotted a strange polygon surrounding the planet’s south pole — a feature that…