Opinion

Animals can be born with genetic or developmental issues that make it hard for them to live normal lives. They also can develop mental health problems in response to conditions around them.

AI "alignment" is a buzzword, not a feasible safety goal.

Scientists have discovered an enormous radio galaxy 32 times the size of the Milky Way. They nicknamed it "Inkathazo," or "trouble," as the team struggles to understand the physics behind it.

This is the oldest confirmed use of a mixture comprising two or more plant toxins specifically applied to arrowheads.

Human biology is vastly more energy efficient than today's computing.

Fake papers are contaminating the world’s scientific literature, fueling a corrupt industry and slowing legitimate lifesaving medical research

Neurotechnology raises many high-stakes ethical questions. Setting ground rules could help protect workers and ensure that tasks are adapted to the person, rather than the other way around.

Antarctica is melting, and crucial details are beginning to come into focus of exactly how it's happening.

Archaeologists and Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people are shedding new light on a series of enigmatic earth rings located in southeastern Australia.

Even once researchers can reliably get more power out of a fusion reaction than they put in, they'll still need to overcome engineering challenges to scale up fusion energy.