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.

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

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.

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

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

Nations established territorial claims underground to access oil and gas. Now they are expanding those claims upward to snag the wind.

Elephant trunks, more sci-fi face-tentacle than ho-hum mammal nose, are getting new scrutiny as researchers explore how the wrinkles grow.

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

The ouch of hair pulling is transmitted with the help of a protein used to sense light touches. These details could lead to new treatments.