“Ankle bones of Purgatorius exhibit features that indicate it lived in trees, so we initially thought its absence south of Montana could be related to the sweeping devastation of forests from the ...

Drugs originally designed to treat diabetes and obesity are reshaping medicine in unforeseen ways. Their impact on public health is really unprecedented in modern times, perhaps only upstaged by ...

How a collection of London pigeons and Galápagos mockingbirds provided the receipts for Darwin’s biggest ideas.

The lasers alone would cost around one trillion dollars and the technology to create a nanocraft does not yet exist.

AI-powered digital assistants can do many complex tasks on their own. But who takes responsibility when they cause harm?

The dinosaur lineage has provided us with some of the most truly terrifying animals to ever walk the planet. But we eventually learned that all birds are actually theropod dinosaurs. Looking at ...

Semaglutide has already become more than just a “vanity drug.” Clinical trials like SUSTAIN-6 and FLOW have shown it can slash the risk of kidney disease, reduce major heart attacks, and even lower ...

For most patients, the loss faded within weeks or months. But for a smaller group, taste never fully returned. Even years after infection, certain flavors remain muted or completely absent.

People who reported “always” listening to music saw dementia risk plummet by 39% compared to those who rarely or never tuned in. They also had a 17% lower risk of Cognitive Impairment No Dementia ...

Researchers say we must stop treating physical inactivity as a personal failure and fix our broken systems instead.

Adam Schiavi, Ph.D., M.D., is an anesthesiologist and neurocritical care specialist at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, part-time biomedical ethicist, and futurist obsessed with how technology influences ...

The Widmanstätten pattern also hints at how the meteorite was processed by the ancient Egyptians. The cross-hatched texture, ...