Recently, AI agents undergoing tests acted in surprising and concerning ways. This wasn’t supposed to happen, so how worried ...

Studying humanmade seismic waves is useful for a few reasons. It can help engineers construct safer buildings. City planners ...

Virga refers to rain or snow that evaporates before it reaches the ground.

New sensors can map infrasound — a deep-bass thrumming lower than what human ears can hear — emitted by a fire as its flames ...

This collection of stories explores the science of food, from the big three macronutrients — proteins, fats and carbohydrates — to vitamins, antioxidants and other micronutrients.

Chocolate-chip sea stars are famous for the rows of dark, pointy bumps that cover each of their arms. The animals really look like they’re dotted with chocolate chips. But what’s inside their arms is ...

It seems some Egyptian royal women really were warrior princesses. Researchers examined five almost 4,000-year-old mummified princesses. Their results suggest these women were skilled users of the ...

A cave in Africa seems to host the oldest known traces of humans using fire. Burnt remnants of animal bones hint that groups of Homo erectus used fires here as long as 1.8 million years ago. The site ...

Euplotes gigatrox may look like an insect, but it’s a type of single-celled protist called a ciliate. It has lots of hairlike cilia surrounding its mouth parts (large oval depression, top). This ...

Kids learn in grade school that honeybees “create” a new queen bee by feeding a larva royal jelly. A new study find that the young bee’s diet may be only part of what crowns her queen. The chemical ...

Is it a good idea to use artificial intelligence (AI) for math help? Yes — and no. That’s based on the results of a new survey. AI can be a great tutor, it finds, but only if you use it in certain ...