Starting at a tender age, we learn to recognize patterns in our environment and to then modify our behavior accordingly. (My ...

Ancient Egyptians and Etruscans pioneered orthodontics, using delicate gold wires and catgut to straighten teeth. It’s a tale ...

Researchers have developed a low-cost visible light communication (VLC) system using commercially available hardware that ...

In recent decades, scientists have debated whether a seven-million-year-old fossil was bipedal—a trait that would make it the ...

Why does cancer sometimes recur after chemotherapy? Why do some bacteria survive antibiotic treatment? In many cases, the ...

Near the equator, the Sun hurries below the horizon in a matter of minutes. Darkness seeps from the surrounding forest.

It’s a new year, and according to a new paper, physics is headed into a new era. Over the past few years, the field of ...

For the first time, scientists have reconstructed ancient genomes of Human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B (HHV-6A/B) from ...

American science is facing a looming collaboration crisis. Researchers around the world are deciding not to present at ...

We all love a good mineral water. All those tasty particles must be great, right? Well, let's talk about the one kind of ...

Quantum computers have made a massive splash over the past years, with quantum computing projects racking up billions of ...

How did life begin on Earth? While scientists have theories, they don’t yet fully understand the precise chemical steps that ...