Morbid entertainment is a massive industry. Scary movies are box-office winners, and true-crime podcasts consistently rank at ...

Police officers, hospital staff and emergency workers often swear that their nights get busier under a full moon. But does science back that up?

As more and more people seek advice from chatbots, these technologies may start to influence human behavior and societal ...

Without information integrity – where we can trust what we are told in the news and online – climate disinformation runs rife ...

Every time you eat a meal, you’re hosting a dinner party. Your guests are the trillions of microbes that live in your gut. These hungry microbes, collectively known as your gut microbiome, directly ...

In 2002, an online database was set up allowing birdwatchers to record their species observations. It is now a vast resource, shaping scientific research.

Researchers at Columbia have created a chip that turns a single laser into a “frequency comb,” producing dozens of powerful light channels at once. Using a special locking mechanism to clean messy ...

Artificial intelligence can solve problems at remarkable speed, but it’s the people developing the algorithms who are truly driving discovery. At The University of Texas at Arlington, data scientists ...

SEATTLE — On Monday, a Seattle scientist, Mary Brunkow, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Her work, alongside two other scientists, led to a new branch of immunology research that ...

The industry believes AI will work its way into every corner of our lives, and so needs to build sufficient capacity to address that anticipated demand. But the hardware used to make AI work is so ...

Jane Goodall, a British primatologist known for her work with chimpanzees, died on Wednesday 1 October, aged 91. She was in California on a speaking tour and died of natural causes, according to the ...