Though the horned rabbits aren’t a danger to humans or pets, Van Hoose advises people to keep their distance from the ...

A new brain prosthesis can read out inner thoughts in real time, helping people with ALS and brain stem stroke communicate ...

The U.S. planetary science community is sounding the alarm about plans to discard a nuclear technology that has powered ...

Life expectancy has risen dramatically since 1900, reshaping how we understand aging. Scientists now view skin not just as a ...

Hannah Richter is a freelance science journalist based in Washington, D.C. She writes about Earth, space and science policy ...

Ancient teeth found in Ethiopia belong to a never-before-seen species in the Australopithecus genus of human ancestors ...

Meltwater from a glacial lake outburst is flooding Juneau, Alaska. Such events are likely to happen more often as climate ...

Researchers are alarmed that an expansive executive order issued by President Donald Trump might upend a long-standing ...

All mainstream credit card numbers obey a mathematical trick designed to catch the most common typos. It’s called the Luhn ...

This telescope has revealed the whipped-up dust from the birth of a star—and a shining background galaxy—more clearly than ...

Called subsea desalination, the idea is to remove the salt from water in the deep sea. If it worked at scale, the technology ...

A survey of more than 1,000 physicists finds deep disagreements in what quantum theories mean in the real world ...