Participants “navigating” on a lab computer have shaped navigation knowledge. Studies that add in the environment challenge those findings.

Saturn is known for its stunning rings and its many moons (four seen here), but they aren’t the planet’s only companions. Its first known Trojan — an asteroid that shares the planet’s orbit around the ...

Genetic analysis of cavity crud from two famed man-eating lions suggests the method could re-create diets of predators that lived thousands of years ago.

This first successful treatment of tumors with radioactive ion beams could one day lead to treating human patients’ tumors with millimeter precision.

The ouch of hair pulling is transmitted with the help of a protein used to sense light touches. These details could lead to new treatments.

A new gene drive can copy and paste itself into the genomes of herpes simplex viruses in mice. The end goal is a version that disables the virus in humans.

Nations established territorial claims underground to access oil and gas. Now they are expanding those claims upward to snag the wind.

An analysis of satellite data could help predict where rivers will change their course and where their rerouted flows will go.

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