Cancer is often thought of as a single disease. Yet even tumors that arise in the same organ can follow very different genetic paths. A new study shows that these differences can sometimes be traced ...

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An international team of scientists spotted the color-changing insect on Barro Colorado Island in Panama. In the pitch black ...

Public agencies do not have to agree with outside researchers. But they should be willing to engage with science, especially when it is supported by documented field data gathered over many years.

Researchers are trying to determine the composition of the mysterious red dots captured by the James Webb Space Telescope.

By growing miniature brain models from patient cells, researchers have identified distinct electrical activity patterns linked to various autism profiles. This approach offers a personalized way to ...

Male zebra finch calls attract mates – and maybe, coincidentally, you? Raina Fan Logan S. James, The University of Texas at ...

Researchers analyzing chest CT scans from more than 27,000 adults have found that the condition of the thymus gland, a small ...

Physicists have directly observed the electronic building blocks responsible for flat bands in quantum materials, confirming ...

We all hope for as many happy, healthy years as possible with our pets. The normal process of aging comes with some signs of slowing down, but a cluster of ...

From sequoias to cherry blossoms, the National Geographic archives record a long love affair with trees. Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore, a writer, photographer and editor for National Geographic in its early ...

Hidden gamma-ray burst echo reveals a huge unseen cosmic blast, helping astronomers trace one of space’s rarest explosions.