Hollywood has been imagining the impact AI might have on our lives for decades, but how accurate are these portrayals?

An analysis of thousands of cognitive tests carried out by chimpanzees finds that the number of spectators influenced their ...

Asian elephants at Berlin Zoo show impressive skill when using a hose as a tool, and even appear to sabotage each other by stopping the flow of water ...

Allowing for moves that create quantum superpositions makes a quantum version of a Rubik’s cube incredibly complex, but not impossible to solve ...

In order to figure out how something came from nothing, we first need to explore the different types of nothing ...

Dangerous radiation reaches Mars at levels we aren't exposed to on Earth, which makes the Red Planet a particularly dangerous ...

The brain pathway that causes hairy mammals like mice and dogs to shake themselves dry appears to have more to do with ...

A robot dog chased down a ball and clambered over obstacles after learning the skills from images and video generated by artificial intelligence. Ge Yang at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

Oil and water can be separated efficiently by pumping the mixture through thin channels between two semipermeable membranes ...

When it comes to the survival of animals living in the wild, the characteristics of the group can matter as much as the ...

There may be more bird flu cases in humans in the US than we previously thought. Health departments in two states took blood ...

Chronic pain has increased among adults in the US since 2019, which could be due to a rise in sedentary lifestyles or reduced access to healthcare amid covid-19 restrictions ...