Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the ...

Wild axolotls are facing extinction. That’s the bad news. But take heart: Cutie-pie axolotls bred in captivity may be able to ...

By studying the natural world, scientists find blueprints for innovations that can improve human lives—in the genes of a ...

Other year-end selections are much larger than a zombie mushroom. In Peru, researchers described an acanth shrub that reaches ...

A landmark real-world experiment gave the strongest evidence yet that the shingles vaccine could lower the risk of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia, finally giving concrete data to ...

The most transformative deep sea finding in a generation is not a single strange animal or a record-breaking trench, but ...

The human brain has 86 billion neurons connected by roughly 100 trillion synapses, making it one of the most complex objects in the known universe. Each year neuroscientists make fascinating, ...