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Cats, unlike dogs and toddlers, help you only when it helps them

Dogs spontaneously aid struggling humans the way young children do—whereas cats wait until they stand to benefit

Largest whale ‘graveyard’ discovered, with skeletons spanning 5 million years

The fossilized remains of more than 450 whales have amassed along a 750-mile-long stretch of the Indian Ocean floor

Indonesia Landslides Devastated Endangered Orangutans, Study Finds

CATRIN EINHORN

More than 5 percent of the species is estimated to have been lost when a climate-fueled storm unleashed torrents of water, mud and debris.

How to build kids’ ‘cognitive endurance’ in an age of distraction

The ability to run "mental marathons" is a skill children can learn through simple, but dedicated, practice

How to tell if your dog is left-pawed or right-pawed, according to science

A step-by-step guide to the "Doginburgh Inventory," a new pawedness test developed by dog behavior researchers

NASA Crew-12 Commander Captures Snaky Southern Lights From Space Station

JOHNNY DIAZ

The footage of the aurora over Earth’s Southern Hemisphere was shared on Sunday by Jessica Meir, commander of NASA’s Crew-12 mission.

AI scores a ‘C–’ on its hardest math test yet

The second batch of "First Proof" problems is meant to evaluate AI's usefulness for research-level math. The best model got six or seven of the 10 questions basically right

Report of gene-edited human embryos sparks worries about the technology’s future uses

Eight years after a Chinese scientist's report of gene-edited babies shocked the world, U.S. scientists reported editing embryos not meant for pregnancies using a more precise technique

The U.S. is getting hit with severe stormy weather—here’s what’s stewing in the atmosphere

Cold fronts colliding with warm, humid air from the Gulf of Mexico could cause dangerous weather conditions, forecasters say

Nearly Everyone, Everywhere, Veers Left When Walking

RACHEL NUWER

Researchers are at a loss for why people across cultures and ages, regardless of their dominant hand, have a natural bias toward wandering in a counterclockwise direction.

What AI-herding scientists can learn from watching ‘sheepdog YouTube’

Controlling a small group of "noisy" sheep holds hints for computer algorithms

The 2026 World Cup will bring the heat. Here's how to keep cool

Extreme heat poses a risk to players, spectators and workers—find out where the danger is and how to keep cool

What Does ‘Triggered’ Really Mean?

MELINDA WENNER MOYER

This popular term is often misused, experts say, which may cause more harm than good.

China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft arrives at one of Earth’s mysterious ‘quasi-moons’

The Tianwen-2 spacecraft is slowly closing in on the near-Earth asteroid Kamo'oalewa, on a mission that would bring China's first asteroid samples back to Earth in 2027

El Niño is here and could tip Earth to a new record hot year

Scientists have been expecting El Niño to set in for quite a while now—and it's finally official