Over her long career, Bonnie Buratti has seen the search for life in the solar system go from a joke to a flagship mission.

Cats can flow like liquids through tall crevices, but they solidify a bit as they approach short crannies, new research shows.

Human sniffs last between one and three seconds. During that time, chemicals enter the nose and allow us to perceive the smells around us. But whether humans can perceive odor changes shorter than the ...

Two new studies find climate change amped up sea surface temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico, fueling the hurricanes' intensity.

A new gene drive can copy and paste itself into the genomes of herpes simplex viruses in mice. The end goal is a version that disables the virus in humans.

Participants “navigating” on a lab computer have shaped navigation knowledge. Studies that add in the environment challenge those findings.

Saturn is known for its stunning rings and its many moons (four seen here), but they aren’t the planet’s only companions. Its first known Trojan — an asteroid that shares the planet’s orbit around the ...

Genetic analysis of cavity crud from two famed man-eating lions suggests the method could re-create diets of predators that lived thousands of years ago.

John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton used tools from physics to develop data analysis methods that underlie machine learning.

This first successful treatment of tumors with radioactive ion beams could one day lead to treating human patients’ tumors with millimeter precision.

Dozens of stars fleeing a neighbor of the Milky Way suggest these escapees could have an outsized influence on their cosmic surroundings.

Bionics engineers typically view biology as something to be worked around. “Anatomics” engineers the body to be part of the system.