By manipulating light with tiny structures, patches on peacock spiders appear superblack, helping accentuate the arachni...

By playing StarCraft and Minecraft, artificial intelligence is learning how to collaborate and adapt.

The first gene-edited snails confirm which gene is responsible for the direction of the shell’s spiral.

Moonquakes recorded decades ago suggest the moon is tectonically active. Knowing more about that activity could help sci...

A new artificial intelligence seems to share our intuitive ability to estimate numbers at a glance.

An unexpected abundance of proteins for catching dim light evolved independently in three groups of weird deep-sea fishe...

Mapping millions of kilometers of waterways shows that just 37 percent of rivers longer than 1,000 kilometers remain unc...

Scientists link bouts of intense rainfall and drought around 8,600 to 6,000 years ago to declining numbers of South Amer...

In 1969, a doctor tried and failed to restore a 54-year-old man’s vision. Fifty years later, scientists are still strugg...

A small study finds that transplanting gut microbes from a lean person into obese people didn’t lead to weight loss, as...