We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
Tiny water-secreting pores appear to organize the major veins of the plant leaves into an arrangement known as a Voronoi diagram.
AI helped researchers develop an experimental blood test that might let doctors diagnose overlapping dementias.
Adult finches make "heat calls" as the temperature rises. Exposure to the song prepares their unhatched young's brains for the heat.
Vaccination remains the priority, but some researchers are looking for drugs to fight the virus in people who don't get the shot.
Well-known microbes that grow on our crops, our gardens, even our skin have been found thriving at two to three times the flying height of a commercial jetliner.
In a first, researchers genetically modified hookworms. It’s a step toward turning the parasites into living pharmacies.
DNA preserved in ancient scat reveals what Yukon ground squirrels ate and what animals shared their world.
During courtship, male scissor-tailed nightjars crack their wings together to make a sharp snapping sound. It's the result of colliding arm bones.
A new analysis of a 120-million-year-old fossil suggests at least one pterosaur species shimmered in iridescent greens and magentas.
