A new way of communicating lets devices such as brain implants, contact lenses, credit cards, and smaller wearable ...

The speed of vessels operating near where killer whales live is the most influential factor—even more so than ...

Most of us think of gratitude as a sweet emotion, but researchers say there's a downside to being ...

It’s difficult enough to see things in the dark, but if you’re a hummingbird-sized hawkmoth you also have ...

Toddlers as young as two understand that the noises they make can affect people around them—and know how ...

A new app that uses a smartphone to wirelessly test for sleep apnea may be able to detect ...

Institutionalization is an extreme form of early neglect.

The West Coast in the United States is warm and parched. The East Coast spent the past winter ...

Rather than asking people about the economic value of charismatic or endangered species, a new study asks city-dwellers ...

A new study is first to show that fishing likely worsens population collapses in species of forage fish, ...

In addition to vacation photos and cat videos, people also share details about their personal lives and feelings ...

It's not just the football players who have spent a year training. University of Washington seismologists will again ...

People are living much longer worldwide than they were two decades ago, as death rates from infectious diseases ...

Within a year, the researchers say the app. BiliCam, could be used by doctors as an alternative to ...

Infants' brains are preparing them to act on the world by practicing how to speak before they actually ...

What looked at first like a sort of upside-down planet has instead revealed a new method for studying ...