Science

While many bird species go from egg to adult in months, some seabirds spend years in a sort of awkward…

A robotic tugboat is launching to pull a decades-old space telescope to safety. Early on July 2, a private spacecraft…

It sounds like a scene out of a horror movie: a shark that can walk. In reality, walking sharks “are…

A newly discovered microbe is like a mini version of the Hulk. Euplotes gigatrox is a single-celled protist that resembles…

Mirrors are tricky. Even humans aren’t born with an intuitive understanding of them; we have to learn how they work.…

Last fall, scientists documented the greater noctule bat snatching songbirds out of the air for a snack. But while this…

A new estimate of insect diversity suggests there are at least 14 million to 20 million species buzzing and crawling…

Reassuring evidence on acetaminophen’s safety during pregnancy keeps growing. A large, two-decade study in Hong Kong is the latest to…

Artificial intelligence is getting better at everything, including hacking. It’s becoming easier than ever before to steal someone’s identity, cripple…

A kilometer down in the ocean, football-sized roly-polies slowly clamber along the seafloor. Their metabolism is so slow that they…