The earliest light in the universe has been traveling across space since just after the Big Bang. Known as the cosmic ...

Groundbreaking UK research suggests a simple vision test could predict dementia risk over a decade before symptoms appear.

Human-surveillance technologies have advanced in the past few years with the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI ...

Behavioral ecologist Michael Weiss was browsing through new drone footage of the orca pods he studies in the Salish Sea when he spotted one of the killer whales carrying something green in its mouth a ...

Each year, a tiny species in Australia makes a grueling 620-mile (1,000-kilometer) nighttime migration, and it’s pulling off the feat in a way only humans and migratory birds have been known to do, a ...

"Science saved my life, and I want to use it to help others," writes Claire Brown about proposed federal funding cuts.

Exercise can support your gut, leading to a range of health benefits. Here's how exercise affects the gut, and the type of ...

At the start of an unprecedented meeting of vaccine committee of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the ...

A new study examined different ways of coping with stress to see what makes us feel better when we're struggling.

The public is tuning out the seemingly slow warming of the world, but it doesn't have to be that way, argue Grace Liu and ...

While NFL players were in the trenches of a grueling season, Braden Smith was fighting a different battle: the one going on ...

The chief data reporter for the Financial Times discusses how he considers the use of text, color, and annotation to aid ...