The race for space internet is colliding with humanity’s oldest science.

On a humid morning in Fukuoka, a coastal city in southern Japan, a new kind of power came online. Japan has launched Asia’s ...

Some patterns also emerged: male physicians were nearly twice as likely as female physicians to receive large payments. And ...

At night in the forests of East Asia, fireflies glow to attract mates. But sometimes their signals are hijacked. Sheet web spiders have been caught turning these insects into unwilling accomplices, ...

Waves of quadcopters crashed out of the sky in Indiana earlier this week during a military demonstration. Their sudden, synchronized collapse wasn’t the result of missiles or shrapnel. It came from an ...

The researchers, led by bioengineer Shuting Liu at South China Agricultural University, claim that unlike earlier glowing plants that required genetic tinkering or fragile bioluminescent enzymes, ...

In 48 higher-income countries—including the United States, Brazil, and much of Europe—beef consumption exceeds healthy dietary levels. If people in those nations reduced their beef intake to the ...

A new study from researchers at the University of Amsterdam suggests exactly that. In a surprising experiment, the study authors built a stripped-down social media platform populated entirely by AI ...

In the deep recesses of a Canadian mine, geochemist Barbara Sherwood Lollar stumbled upon the find of a lifetime: water ...

“Our study reveals a new specimen of the ankylosaur Spicomellus afer, which is the oldest known ankylosaur in the fossil ...

Research clearly shows that men are more aggressive than women. Men commit more homicides, start more fights in school, and ...

A 32-gram robot turns one of nature’s tricks into a long flight.