In a new experiment, raccoons continued opening fresh doors and latches on a puzzle box even after they had claimed the food reward inside. That persistence is a bit perplexing. Researchers think the ...

The algorithms failed the test, prescribing diet plans that provided nearly 700 calories fewer than the intake levels recommended by a registered dietitian and skewing macronutrients into risky ...

For decades, Kotoku Wamura was mocked for building an enormous floodgate in his village. But when a massive tsunami struck, his vision saved an entire town.

What’s less well known is allowing your domestic cat to roam outside exposes them to considerable danger – and the risk of a short life. About two-thirds of all Australian cat owners have had a cat ...

The experiment began with a straightforward prediction: microbes from older mice would age young ovaries. But when the results came in, the data pointed the other way. In a new study in Nature Aging, ...

They were too big and too far away to exist by the rules. Now, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has finally cracked the chemical code of these distant ...

He and a team of researchers from Tianjin University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong set out to see if the human brain can actually tell the difference between a real human voice and an AI ...

By feeding plants with energy and CO₂ from decomposing trash, the dome turns a landfill into an unlikely food source.

Image in Creative Commons. In 1967, Hungarian scientist Endre Mester tried to cure skin cancer in mice using a low-powered ruby laser. He failed to stop ...

Researchers found a magnetic star core acting as a high speed engine to power a record breaking luminous supernova.

A newly described African species in the magic mushroom family confirms its evolutionary origin. Psilocybe ochraceocentrata is found growing on cattle dung in the grasslands of southern Africa and ...

LeCun in 2018. Image via Wiki Commons. Just a few years ago, Yann LeCun appeared to be the right man at exactly the right place. LeCun, who famously pioneered the convolutional neural networks (CNNs) ...