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GPS tracking reveals fast east-west flights lead to a mismatch between birds' internal time and the sun’s position, skewing their sense of direction.

Madagascan flying foxes aren’t as mighty as they were 150 years ago. The big bats have shrunk, possibly due to selective hunting or other human impacts.

Everyday Earth clouds get their start with a bit of salt or dust. Not so the Red Planet's Arsia Mons Elongated Cloud, computer models suggest.

The first estimate of CTE prevalence across the NFL suggests 75 percent of players may suffer from the neurodegenerative disease.

Beautiful ripples drew Víctor Ortega Jiménez to feeding flamingos. Unraveling their secret could inspire new ways to filter water.

Most comets would have hit Earth with too much speed and at too sharp an angle for life-giving molecules to survive impact, a new study suggests.

New brain-computer interfaces turn attempted speech into words and can speak them in a voice resembling the user’s own.

Guidelines for designing coasters don’t reflect the latest science about what types of movement the brain can withstand.

Farmers in Yunnan Province, China, alerted researchers to the humongous fungus. Dianjunus rex’s mushrooms stand at half a meter tall.

Volcanoes have cast a shadow over climate and history. Cold spurts after eruptions may have spurred famine, disease, revolts and other events.

Anthropic says Claude helped a scientist plan potentially risky bird flu research, a case that highlights questions about AI’s growing role in biology.

Editor in Chief Nancy Shute discusses the power of the human voice, hopeful advances in treating stiff person syndrome and new controversy about using AI in mathematics.

A viral infection from millions of years ago may have influenced chimp brain evolution through DNA leftovers in the genome.

In people being treated for blood cancer, consuming sugar while on antibiotics boosted harm to the diversity of the gut microbiome.

Switching to an electric stove from a lung-irritating gas one may improve asthma symptoms. But if you’re stuck with gas, reducing exposure may help.

The force exerted by a gas usually results from many atoms or molecules at once. But scientists isolated the force of a lone particle.

Vincent van Gogh'spainted the iconic work in the summer of 1889. Now researchers claim to have pinned down which night the stars were from.

If given the green light by the FDA, a CAR T cell therapy from Kyverna Therapeutics would be the first approved treatment for stiff person syndrome.

An AI ‘virtual author’ can help scientists use a paper’s methods on new data. But it’s not going to match a human author’s expertise.

A possible reason for the overdose deaths drop is more use of naloxone, which reverses opioid overdoses. But while still a key tool, its use fell too.