November 13, 2024 • Birds descended from the dinosaurs, but researchers have known relatively little about how the bird's brain took shape over millions of years. A new fossil sheds light on ...

Australian National University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Artificial intelligence (AI) has taken centre stage in basic science. The five winners of the 2024 Nobel Prizes ...

In medieval times, astrology was considered a serious science, a branch of astronomy. Curator Larisa Grollemond of the Getty Museum, walks us through the medieval zodiac and how someone’s sign ...

This month’s picks include a time-travel thriller with Dylan O’Brien and a dystopian comedy with Awkwafina and John Cena. By Elisabeth Vincentelli Stream it on Max. Unlike the impossibly ...

For almost a century, Science News journalists have covered advances in science, medicine and technology for the general public, including the 1925 Scopes “monkey” trial, the advent of the ...

Link Olson holds the skull of a short-tailed weasel that a mountaineer donated to the University of Alaska Museum of the North. (Photo provided by University of Alaska Museum of the North ...

But what does that mean? Francis Bacon, the science philosopher, said that science relies on thematic organization and a logical narrative flow, referring to experimentation without direction as “mere ...

Every now and then, we all need a little dose of something magical, and even better when that happens to be a world first. That’s the case with today’s treatment – the first-ever footage of ...

The science stories that will actually change your day — and maybe make you laugh. Science Unscripted is a podcast, radio show & YouTube channel driven by listeners. Hello from Germany :) We're ...

Cute features in babies and animals are more than just amusing—they trigger powerful evolutionary responses that help our species’ survival. Moo Deng, the baby pygmy hippo that has become ...

This election is still a dead heat, according to most polls. In a fight with such wafer-thin margins, we need reporters on the ground talking to the people Trump and Harris are courting.

Nov. 12, 2024 — The chances of intelligent life emerging in our Universe -- and in any hypothetical ones beyond it -- can be estimated by a new theoretical model ... Nov. 12, 2024 — Scientists ...