In response to my call to citizen scientists, I had received 800 hedgehog fecal samples over the past 7 months. However, I ...

Human activities are eroding biodiversity, especially in freshwater systems. Despite major advances in quantifying species ...

Postmenstrual age is a clinical measure that combines gestational age at birth with time since birth. Thus, an infant born 14 ...

In her Science Insider story “New U.S. rules on risky pathogen research draw mixed reviews” (29 July, 10.1126/science.zfz2hl6 ...

Bird songs are often described as analogs to human speech and songs, but expansive comparisons are necessary to determine ...

Many animals use the Sun compass to guide their movement, sometimes over thousands of kilometers. Consistent use of the Sun ...

OVAL applies this approach with Adapt, a sleep system that combines physiological sensing with individualized temperature ...

Few have done more to change that than cognitive scientist Tania Lombrozo, whose excellent new book, Why We Ask Why, holds a ...

Drug developers have historically sought broad “genus” patents covering millions or billions of chemical structures designed ...

Pure math is being devastated or revolutionized, depending on your point of view.” So said Cornell professor Steven Strogatz after the artificial intelligence (AI) company OpenAI announced in early ...

Cells with defects in earlier complexes of the electron transport chain or other types of cell stress did not benefit from ...

Biophysicist Joseph Osmundson brings a scientist’s mind to a deeply personal subject in his genre-defying memoir, Spawning Season. This week on the Science podcast, Osmundson explores how queer ...