Chess960 involves shuffling the pieces at the back of the board, and an analysis suggests doing so can increase the ...

The fundamental nature of living things challenges assumptions that physicists have held for centuries.

The oldest previously known funeral pyre in the world was discovered in Alaska and dates to approximately 11,500 years ago, but that cremation involved a young child rather than an adult. Some burned ...

Nancy Shute talks about life’s complexities, from its evolution on Earth as a single cell to complex human behavior.

There's a line of thought that equates intelligence with “pattern recognition.” How do you stack up on this unique cognitive ...

The origins of consciousness date back about 540 million years ago, when animal bodies became more complex. Feelings like ...

Scientific studies claim that modern music has become simpler than ever before, both lyrically and musically. But are they ...

It's a new year, which means there are new expressions, and new partnerships, hitting the Kentucky bourbon scene this month.

And they found that, while researchers produce far more papers after starting to use AI and the quality of the language used went up, the publication rate of these papers has dropped. The researchers ...

With modern seismic tomography, Earth scientists have discovered that above Earth's core-mantle boundary (CMB), about 2,900 ...

The Science and Policy Initiatives (SPI) team at the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), a nonprofit scientific ...

If you’ve ever seen a group of crows gather around a fallen comrade and wondered why they’re there, you’re not alone. This ...