Science

Ancient ear-wiggling muscles kick on when people strain to hear. That auricular activity, described January 30 in Frontiers in Neuroscience,…

Nipping negative repetitive thinking in the bud has the potential to stave off numerous mental health disorders. Think Eeyore and…

A South Carolina ghost story could have a very earthly explanation. Starting in the 1950s, folks in the Summerville, S.C.,…

A staccato blast of electromagnetic energy has been tracked to an old, dead galaxy for the first time. The discovery…

Meet Jon Nelson. He’s a dad, a husband, a coach and a professional who works in marketing. But underneath it…

Life of the party Margaret S. Collins, the first Black female entomologist in the United States to earn a Ph.D.,…

A school of hardyhead silverside fish (Atherinomorus lacunosus) flees from four blacktip reef sharks near the shore of the Maldives…

For the first time, ancient DNA from droppings left by New Zealand’s flightless moa identifies actual species of fungi the…

So many of us struggle to fall asleep and stay there through the night. About a third of U.S. adults…

Mantis shrimp are famous for their ultrafast, powerful punches used to dispatch prey. They can land volley after shell-splintering volley,…

When egg prices are hard-boiling your temper, it’s important to make sure that each egg you make is the best…

When Yang “Sunny” Lu asked OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 to calculate 1-plus-1 a few years ago, the chatbot, not surprisingly, told her…