A mystery novel, a history book, and a fantasy epic may have little in common in plot or style. But count the words inside them and a strange regularity appears: many new words show up early, then ...

An ecosystem is not a still life. Even where everything looks stable—a woodland, a lake, the soil—the internal "bookkeeping" ...

A new analysis from the 2015 Pelotas Birth Cohort suggests that dietary patterns at just 2 years of age are associated with ...

A large international study tracking over 33,000 adults has found that how long you walk at a time may matter more than how many steps you take overall. Researchers discovered that sustained walking ...

Decades of cognitive research reveal that parrots can understand what numbers represent. Here’s how these birds use them to ...

Researchers from the HUN-REN Szeged Biological Research Centre and HCEMM have just published a new study suggesting that it's not simply the number of tumor mutations that matters for immunotherapy, ...

A long-running citizen science program in Glacier National Park has observed a marked decrease in the population of mountain ...

The “Crimson Record” study highlights patterns in suspected lynching cases often ruled suicides in the South over the last 25 years.

It’s more than just code. Scientists have found a way to "dial" the hidden personalities of AI, from conspiracy theorists to social influencers.

A study introduces a scalable 2D human neuron platform to probe how brain-like rhythms emerge and how specific drugs reshape them, aiding epilepsy and autism research.

By now, ChatGPT, Claude, and other large language models have accumulated so much human knowledge that they're far from simple answer-generators; they can also express abstract concepts, such as ...

A large cohort study has indicated that bad quality sleep can make you pre-diabetic by morning. Here is what you should know ...