Science

A look under the hood of DeepSeek’s AI models doesn’t p...

A peer-reviewed paper about Chinese startup DeepSeek's models explains their tra...

Some irritability is normal. Here’s when it’s not

Irritability is a normal response to frustrations, but it can sometimes signal a...

Huge relatives of white sharks lived earlier than thought

Lamniform sharks such as great whites and tiger sharks are famous for their size...

Drought may have doomed the ‘hobbits’ of Flores

Stalagmite data suggest Homo floresiensis faced prolonged drought that stressed ...

GLP-1 drugs failed to slow Alzheimer’s in two big clini...

Tantalizing results from small trials and anecdotes raised hopes that drugs like...

How male seahorses tap into their mothering side

By studying the genes responsible for the seahorse’s brood pouch, researchers un...

A CDC panel has struck down universal newborn hepatitis...

A reshaped vaccine committee voted to scale back newborn hepatitis B shots despi...

Big Neandertal noses weren’t made for cold

Tiny cameras threaded inside a Neandertal skull provide evidence that their big ...

Nanotyrannus is still not a teenage T. rex

Nanotyrannus wasn’t a juvenile T. rex but a petite adult of a separate species, ...

Chatbots spewing facts, and falsehoods, can sway voters

Chatbots that dole out fact-laden arguments can sway voters. Those facts don’t h...

How a bacterial toxin linked to colon cancer messes wit...

A closeup look at colibactin’s structure reveals chemical motifs that guide its ...

A volcanic eruption might have helped bring the Black P...

A volcanic eruption may have triggered a deadly chain of events that brought the...

Ancient southern Africans took genetic evolution in a n...

An ancient, shared set of human-specific genes underwent changes in a geographic...

Human-caused earthquakes are real. Here’s why even stab...

Human activity can cause “healed” faults to release their stored strength, trigg...

Ancient DNA reveals China’s first ‘pet’ cat wasn’t the ...

The modern house cat reached China in the 8th century. Before that, another cat ...

Twisted stacks of 2-D carbon act like a weird type of s...

“Magic-angle” graphene may provide new clues into poorly understood unconvention...