Scientists have identified a brand-new species of worm living in the Great Salt Lake, marking only the third known animal ...

Technologies that underpin modern society, such as smartphones and automobiles, rely on a diverse range of functional ...

19. The largest known prime number contains 41,024,320 digits. 20. Frogs breathe and drink through their skin. 21. A bullet ...

In Indigenous Asháninka belief, bees were once spirits in human form. Stories tell of a woman who enjoyed making masato, a ...

Side-blotched lizards probably don’t call the game that, but they play a version of it anyway. A new study explains the ...

When UC Berkeley biochemist Jennifer Doudna first began studying how bacteria fight virus infections, she had no idea it would result in one of the most important scientific breakthroughs of the ...

Your favorite podcast mentions a new study about the health risks of seed oils. A viral social media post says that new research reveals the reason for rising cervical cancer rates. How can you be ...

Artificial intelligence peer reviewers recommend the acceptance of unsound papers created entirely by AI more than 80% of the time, a new study has found. The authors of the analysis, posted Oct. 20 ...

It’s a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across each month. In the past, we’ve featured year-end roundups of cool science ...

Thousands of scientific papers are retracted every year because of fraudulent activity, with both authors and journals gaming a system to gain academic acclaim through deceit, dishonesty and false ...

Scientific fraud has existed for as long as modern science has; documented cases date back centuries. With wrongdoers profiting off deceptive practices, cases have been sharply rising. A new study has ...

The success of DeepSeek’s powerful artificial intelligence (AI) model R1 — that made the US stock market plummet when it was released in January — did not hinge on being trained on the output of its ...