The UK government's efforts to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) into public services and stimulate economic growth ...

Maps are ubiquitous—on phones, in-flight and car displays, and in textbooks the world over. While some maps delineate and ...

Like ferns and the tides, community conservation groups come and go. Many achieve their goal. Volunteers restore a local ...

At least three and possibly up to 15 birds have died of avian flu at two New York City zoos, according to the organization ...

Galleries and art museums can be intimidating and alienating even for adults. Imagine it from a child's point of view. Stern ...

In 1924 an Australian anthropologist and anatomist, Raymond Dart, acquired a block of calcified sediment from a limestone ...

All animals live in or seek a set of climate conditions they find tolerable. This "climate envelope" partially determines ...

All known human languages display a surprising pattern: the most frequent word in a language is twice as frequent as the ...

An international team has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a nearby sun-like star.

Scientists at UC Santa Cruz have completed the first end-to-end genome of the iconic Pacific banana slug, a species ...

"Temperamental" stars that brighten and dim over a matter of hours or days may be distorting our view of thousands of distant ...

We had a particularly great week for new research findings, in my opinion. I mean, stories like a 2% improvement in a ...