A gene that is important for human hearing could determine whether a dog’s ears are pendulous like a basset hound’s or stubby ...

An analysis of more than one million people in the UK found that two-thirds of people who were vaccine-hesitant during the ...

Artificial-intelligence systems are feeding on Wikipedia without giving back, and academic indifference is threatening the ...

Studies aiming to maximize human creativity demonstrate that people work best when buoyed up by others who show them new ways ...

Over the past half century, researchers have established that birds evolved from dinosaurs: specifically, the theropods, the ...

Huazhong Agricultural University (HZAU) is located in the main urban area of Wuhan, Hubei province in central China. It was founded in 1898 during the reign of Emperor Guangxu (1871-1908) of the Qing ...

Bonds between same-sex individuals help apes and monkeys to manage conflict and strengthen alliances, especially in dry ...

In the aftermath of the United States military’s action to remove Nicolás Maduro, the president of Venezuela on 3 January, US ...

Ocean temperatures well below freezing in Earth’s deep-past glacial phases imply some very salty waters. At the height of a ...

Benchmarks reveal how artificial-intelligence systems reinforce discriminatory social hierarchies.

Chatbots put through psychotherapy report trauma and abuse. Authors say models are doing more than role play, but researchers ...

A Congressional bill restores funding for most NASA space science missions, but there is no money for returning samples ...