Science

A new study suggests that the shingles vaccine could also help protect your heart. The research, published in Nature Medicine, found that people who r…

A forgotten cave in southwestern China has given archaeologists their first major clues about Denisovan culture. Denisovans were a close relative of …

A mountain chickadee waking up in the Sierra Nevada range on a snowy morning has no time to waste. Weighing about as much as a pencil, it must quickly…

New research reveals a potential weakness in how we monitor AI systems for misbehavior. Chain-of-thought monitoring, where one AI checks another’s wor…

Replacing human subjects with AI surrogates, or digital twins, is something some social scientists would like to do. Human participants can be costly,…

Water droplets can act like tiny dancers on a surface, picking up electrical charges as they slide. When these charged drops land on materials with ce…

Scientists discovered that tiny worms move much faster when they are in tight spaces rather than open areas. This is different from how humans or othe…

Previous missions to the moon explored areas near the equator, where extreme temperatures and high ultraviolet radiation make life impossible. However…

Millions of people worldwide take selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) each year, even though scientists don’t fully understand how they wo…

When insects attack plants, some plants can summon help from tiny soil microbes. Cowpea plants release chemicals that feed a group of helpful bacteria…