Science

How child soldiers heal after the trauma of war

For more than two decades, Theresa Betancourt has studied Sierra Leone’s former ...

How people suppress memories may be key to PTSD recovery

People who recovered from PTSD changed the way their brains handle intrusive tho...

Humans, not climate change, may have wiped out Australi...

About 40,000 years ago, giant kangaroos vanished Down Under. Dental analyses sug...

California wildfire season should be over. So why is L....

In some parts of California, fire season is now year-round due to rising heat an...

Cosmic rays could help reveal how tornadoes form

Subatomic particles called muons could measure pressure changes in supercell thu...

More new geckos have been found hiding in Southeast Asi...

Nearly 200 new gecko species found in living in karst landscapes reveal the rugg...

Poop is on the menu for a surprising number of animals

A new tally finds dozens of species giving food a second go-round, from babies b...

Is alcohol linked to cancer? Here’s what the science says

A new U.S. Surgeon General's report describes the link between drinking alcohol ...

What to know about the first bird flu–related death in ...

H5N1 has infected 66 people in the United States since early 2024, mostly causin...

AI helps doctors detect more breast cancer in the large...

AI is as good as clinicians at interpreting mammograms, a cancer study with near...

‘Forever chemicals’ are causing health problems in some...

Deformed scales in hatchlings and biomarkers indicative of disease progression a...

AI boosts breast cancer detection in nationwide screeni...

AI is as good as clinicians at interpreting mammograms, a real-world study with ...

Pluto may have captured its moon Charon with a kiss

When Pluto met Charon, there was an instant connection, new simulations suggest.

Velvet ants have the Swiss Army knife of venoms

A velvet ant bite like “hot oil from the deep fryer” delivers an array of peptid...

The unique neural wiring of the human hippocampus may m...

Living tissue from the memory centers of people’s brains reveals sparse nerve ce...

A major new neutrino experiment is nearing completion

The JUNO experiment, which will study the ways of the electrically neutral subat...