This Shark Lives 400 Years. Its DNA May Explain Why.
Scientists have mapped the genome of the Greenland shark, which could offer clues to the animal’s extreme longevity.
Scientists have mapped the genome of the Greenland shark, which could offer clues to the animal’s extreme longevity.
Videos in India show that sloth bears seem unaware of being stalked by the ferocious felines. When the tigers try to strike, the bears often get the better of them.
In a new book, physicist Sara Walker argues that assembly theory can explain what life is, and even help scientists create new forms of it.
They hold the keys to new physics. If only we could understand them.
Inside the U.S. and Panama’s long-running collaboration to rid an entire continent of a deadly disease
Using a headcam, scientists recorded the world from a baby’s point of view. Now they have trained AI with those recordings to probe how children learn language.
Where The Atlantic’s Science, Technology, and Health reporters found wonder this year
A researcher who has studied the icy world said “the prospects for the development of life are getting better and better on Enceladus.”
Ars chats with host James Burke about his "connective" approach to science history.
The birds are widely reviled for their carrion-eating ways. But an evolutionary history of scavenging has forged a creative, cunning and wide-ranging mind.
A new study offers an alternative to earlier explanations for why moths and other bugs are attracted to artificial sources of illumination.
Some organisms truck along slowly for aeons before suddenly surging into dominance – and something similar often happens with human inventions, too. But why?
The eight-year, £1.4bn voyage into deep space will explore the frozen oceans of Ganymede, Europa and Callisto
Just how far can this climate momentum take us?
A new report suggests that the Inflation Reduction Act could be even bigger than Congress thinks.
Fire ants will change shape of the raft to reduce drag and adapt to fluid flows.
An ancient shipwreck off the coast of Greece is yielding secrets as an archaeological exploration project dives deeper. The effort relies on technological innovation.
Researchers have built an algorithm that can scan old astronomical images for unnoticed space rocks, helping to detect objects that could one day imperil Earth.
Military experts say a new generation of nuclear weapons has raised the risk that Mr. Putin might introduce less destructive atomic arms into the battlefields in and around Ukraine.
Companies including Google and Facebook are pouring more than $900 million into a nascent technology that’s essential to zeroing out emissions.
Strong in some places and flexible in others, the pants were designed for horseback riding.
Hundreds of satellites and spacecraft are keeping an eye on Russia’s nuclear forces from above. So far, they haven’t seen much to worry about.
"We all understand how difficult this is."
Does your internal monologue play out on a television, in an attic, as a bickering Italian couple – or is it entirely, blissfully silent?
Why did so many Americans receive strange packages they didn’t think they’d ordered?
Octopuses and squid are full of cephalopod character. But more scientists are making the case that cuttlefish hold the key to unlocking evolutionary secrets about intelligence.