Since 2014, a virus related to polio has paralyzed hundreds of children. Amid government cuts, what happens if the outbreaks ...

People are turning to AI chatbots for emotional and social support. While chatbot friends can ease loneliness, they can also ...

New research follows a distinct lineage of bedbugs that lived alongside humans for thousands of years, suggesting they might ...

In the movie, Tim Robinson seeks a psychedelic experience from an unusual source. Herpetologists want others to just say no.

Each year, painted lady butterflies migrate thousands of miles between Africa and Europe. As the environment changes, so do ...

Collagen from a fossilized bone fragment can identify the animal it came from. And, some new info about our galaxy’s eventual ...

Recent outages at Newark Airport highlighted the challenges facing air traffic controllers. What's the science underpinning ...

It’s time to say goodbye to Universe of Art. Thank you to everyone who listened over the past couple of years. If you’d like ...

A mysterious disease called acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) has been appearing in emergency rooms for about a decade. The disease has caused otherwise healthy children to lose the ability to move their ...

Pests are ravaging keystone species like ash, elm, and beech. But researchers are breeding the survivors into more resilient populations. Port Orford cedar trees in Redwood National Park that were ...

It’s not just your imagination: the ocean has changed color in the past twenty years. A recent global meeting of the International Seabed Authority to develop a treaty for the world’s oceans floors ...

South American cane toads were brought to Australia in 1935 to help eradicate native beetles that were destroying sugar cane crops. The toads didn’t care much for the beetles, but they did spread ...