An AI agent named Rachel spent St Patrick’s Day weekend calling every pub in Ireland to talk about beer prices.

For millions of fans, these powers belong to the world of Pokémon, but nature has been harnessing many of them long before ...

For tens of thousands of years, two species — Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans — shared vast landscapes.

Endometriosis is a painful, debilitating condition affecting 10% of women worldwide. It occurs when tissue similar to the lining of the uterus (known as lesions) grows elsewhere in the body – usually ...

Water is the most mundane liquid on Earth, yet it almost breaks the rules of thermodynamics. Every other known liquid shrinks ...

Ruan didn’t know it at the time, but he was about to perform a miracle of sorts. He reached inside the patient’s rectum to check for internal bleeding, but as he performed the exam, the heart ...

Over 1,000 seabed tracks hint at a rare moment frozen in time—formed on a seafloor hundreds of meters deep in the Cretaceous.

So too does the train’s GPS, because the technology just can’t work in tunnels. But this particular train didn’t rely on GPS: ...

What began as a tool to identify threats to national security is becoming a surveillance infrastructure that can be used to track everyone.

If you were a starving snake in a barren landscape, your most nutritious available lunch may just be another snake. While cannibalism is an absolute taboo to us humans, it’s remarkably widespread in ...

Assistant Professor of Data Science & Public Policy and a 2025-2027 Andrew Carnegie Fellow at the University of Virginia, where they co-lead the Digital Technology for Democracy Lab. They are also a ...

A patch of seafloor targeted for future mining has given us a blunt reminder that we don’t really know what’s going on down ...