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Why birds were the only dinosaurs to survive Earth’s worst day

How a few unique traits helped modern-style birds—the last living dinosaurs—survive the asteroid apocalypse that took out T. rex and other mighty beasts

Mars orbiter watches mysterious wave of darkness spread across red planet’s surface

Observations by the Mars Express orbiter reveal rapid changes on the Red Planet's surface from windblown volcanic ash

AI music is reviving the same fights that shaped the player piano

As AI songs get harder to tell apart from human-made music, an older technology offers a revealing preview of the fight over artistry, labor and pay

How your body and brain construct chronic pain

Author Rachel Zoffness breaks down why we have chronic pain and how science shows that it's all in our head

Songbirds reveal the dark side of making new brain cells as adults

A new study in songbirds might help explain why humans don't generate many new brain cells, called neurons, as adults

What is Mythos and why are experts worried about Anthropic’s AI model

The company says Mythos is too dangerous to release publicly. Cybersecurity experts agree the model's capabilities matter, but not all of them are buying the most alarming claims

What’s the weirdest planet in the solar system?

All the sun's planets are oddballs. But some are more so than others

Did AI just solve the mystery of one of El Greco’s most enigmatic paintings?

For years, art historians believed The Baptism of Christ was likely painted by El Greco with assistance from other artists. But new research suggests otherwise

NSF awards record number of coveted PhD fellowships in surprise move

Quantum science and AI research are big winners just a year after the U.S. funding giant slashed its Graduate Research Fellowship Program awards in half

The science behind the peptide craze

The world of peptides has exploded in wellness circles, but the benefits of injecting these gray-market molecules rest on little clinical evidence