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 ...

A huge data set has confirmed a long-theorized relationship between the size of stock trades and the impact on prices.

Scientists have uncovered a way to manipulate the pathway in monkey brains that puts the brakes on motivation.

What was originally thought to be a planet orbiting the Fomalhaut star was probably just the fallout of a wild collision.

China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) is a nuclear-fusion research reactor in Hefei. Researchers hope ...

A giant functional atlas of immune cells in a Chinese cohort reveals crucial differences with European and Japanese data sets ...

Drugs that limit the activity of cells called neutrophils could make heart attacks less severe without compromising the ...