A new study links math achievement with individual differences in the ability to rapidly estimate quantities.

On September 5, the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission became the first spacecraft to take a close-up portrait of a rare type of asteroid that lies in the main belt, between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

The first study to track birds in the forest via microphone arrays shows that birds double up on fight songs, or play Marco Polo in tropical shrubbery.

Learning about predators’ tricks can make a bee paranoid.

Physicists have discovered a new particle made of three quarks, including two strange quarks. Its existence further validates the standard model of particle physics.

The regulation of genes, rather than genes alone, may have been crucial to primate evolution.

Scientists have figured out how mice use their noses to sniff out fear in other mice.

Ancient DNA shows North American woolly mammoths migrated back to Asia and displaced Siberian mammoths.

New radio wave observations are giving astronomers their closest look yet at the supermassive black hole believed to be lurking at the center of our galaxy.

Peak winds in North Atlantic hurricanes and similar storms elsewhere in the world have gained speed during the past three decades, thanks to a warming trend in many of the ocean basins where such storms are spawned.