Magnus Carlsen wore jeans to a chess tournament. Now the entire sport is boiling over.

In the 1v1 challenge, humans outperformed ants. Single human participants employed their spatial reasoning to navigate the ...

Garfield, star of the eponymous comic strip created by Jim Davis in 1978, is, like many of the cats that roam our homes, ...

The analysis of these age-old dolia reveals that Roman wine was likely a far cry from the varieties we’re accustomed to today ...

The researchers led by Dr. Eleanor Raffan zoomed in on the pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) gene, which plays a crucial role in ...

Some space images have become timeless icons of our exploration of the cosmos. Take the famous photo of the Pillars of ...

The revolutionary James Webb Space Telescope and next-gen radio telescopes are probing what’s known as the epoch of reionization. It holds clues to the first stars and galaxies, and perhaps the nature ...

Many known languages, for example, have no words for numerals above 2 or 3. A linguist who curated a database of the world’s ...

Two new studies have revealed why some cats are orange – an enduring enigma of genetics, until now.

From the air we breathe to the water we drink, microplastics infiltrate every corner of our lives—but what happens when they ...

Present-Day Plate Boundaries: This model improves upon existing models, incorporating attributes from geophysical, ...

They say you can identify the leopard by its spots, but as it turns out, you can also identify it through its unique roar. Leopards, notoriously difficult to monitor due to their elusive nature, could ...