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Tree-climbing cicadas find their perches by looking for patches of darkness, a strategy known as skototaxis.

A study of ancient artifacts suggests Native American dice games began thousands of years earlier than previously documented.

Artemis II is underway, carrying four astronauts around the moon on a 10-day mission to test systems for later lunar flights and an eventual moon base.

The "digital twins" helped doctors spot good targets for heart ablation in 10 patients. Months later, all of them are free of sustained faulty rhythms.

A Utah fossil shows early relatives of spiders and scorpions already had distinctive front claws 500 million years ago.

Quantum computers based on atoms could provide access to encrypted data much sooner than scientists thought.

Conservative pronatalists want a return to the traditional nuclear family. But that family structure is at odds with how humans evolved.

Gases jetting out of Comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresák may have caused it to reverse its spin in 2017, possibly leading to its eventual destruction.

A new documentary available on Disney+ and Hulu appeals to our sense of wonder to highlight why bees need saving.

The tiny seismic signals of rainwater moving through the ground show how heavy tilling damage soil.