Male brains facilitate connectivity between perception and coordinated action. Female brains facilitate communication between the analytical and the intuitive.

When a mouse is trained to become afraid of a certain odor, his or her pups will be more sensitive to that odor as well. Researchers say that knowing how mouse parents can influence their descendants is a step toward understanding how human parents may pass some psychiatric disorders to their children.

A new algorithm could profoundly change the way we find photos among the billions on social media sites such as Facebook and Flickr.

It may be two inches long, lemon yellow, and the slowest-moving fish in the sea, but it’s also one of the deadliest predators the ocean has ever seen.

With proper coaxing, molecules in microgravity can assemble themselves into forms with surprising properties. This new NASA ScienceCast video explores the possibilities

Gas from a companion star is thought to feed a stellar-mass black hole’s voracious appetite, in the galaxy M101.

Crows, falcons. gannets, hummingbirds, macaws .... and turkeys. Here's what makes these six birds so cool

To learn more about how the brain can process multiple odors all at once, scientists trained locusts to respond to a specific smell.

Places where hot new stars are born and die - and sculpt their surroundings into odd shapes - in the dwarf galaxy orbiting our own Milky Way.

Even if carbon dioxide emissions came to a sudden halt, the carbon dioxide already in Earth's atmosphere could continue to warm our planet for hundreds of years, says a new study.