
Electrifying time-lapse video shows neurons shooting across the inside of a chick embryo
An striking video of developing neurons won the 2023 Nikon Small World in Motion Video Competition.
An striking video of developing neurons won the 2023 Nikon Small World in Motion Video Competition.
This parasitic worm crawls into the eyestalks of snails, takes over its brain then pulsates to make the mollusk look like a dancing caterpillar.
Arp 107 hosts a special spiraling 'Seyfert' galaxy connected to a smaller galaxy by a 'bridge' of dust and gas.
Fish smell is from degrading lipids and bacterial reactions that increase in potency over time.
Life-size carvings of camels have been found in the Saudi Arabian desert, but archaeologists aren't sure who created them and when.
The CDC recommends a newly approved RSV vaccine be given during the last trimester of pregnancy to protect newborns.
There are now RSV vaccines approved for older adults and for pregnant people, and antibody shots (not vaccines) available for babies. What's the difference?
The female orca was found far from her normal hunting ground with six whole sea otters in its stomach and one lodged between its oral cavity and the esophagus.
On an expedition in Hawaii, a remote underwater vehicle filmed a dumbo octopus swimming with its ear-like fins near the seafloor. The pale white creature is one of the deepest-dwelling octopuses on Earth.
A woman survived a rare infection that had previously been reported in only two other humans, both of whom died from the disease.
After you die, bacteria harvest your body for the nutrients that help push daisies.
DNA from cattle suggests some of the first cowboys in the Americas were enslaved Africans, who herded cows that were brought with them on slave ships.
After surviving its closest approach to the sun, Comet Nishimura was buffeted by a possible coronal mass ejection that briefly blew its tail away. The rare event was captured by a NASA spacecraft.
NASA astronaut Frank Rubio has finally returned home from a 371-day stay on the International Space Station — a record for an American — after being trapped when his ride home was damaged.
Astronomers have spotted two huge jets fired off by the 'monster' black hole M87 wobbling on an 11-year cycle, proving for the first time that black holes spin.
A new drug reduced bone loss in mice on the International Space Station, without causing any negative side effects.
Save a chunk on the MacBook Air with M2 processor.
Radioactive metals and even certain gases may be capable of the kinds of reactions needed to spur life, new research suggests.
From the opportunistic "have-a-go" approach of octopuses to "accessory males" that supply female anglerfish with a lifetime of sperm, author Jon Copley explores the sex lives of deep sea creatures.