An international team discovered new types of butterflies that lay hidden in plain sight at the Natural History Museum.

For those with kidney failure, a transplant is often the greatest promise of a healthier, longer life. Yet thousands wait years for a match that never comes. Incompatibility of blood type is one of ...

Satellites, including NASA’s Fermi and Swift telescopes, along with instruments on other spacecraft, spotted the explosion on ...

Research Associate in Behavioural Science at the Institute for Climate Risk & Response, UNSW Sydney Societies increasingly rely on scientists to guide decisions in times of uncertainty, from pandemic ...

To better understand human cognition, scientists trained a large language model on 10 million psychology experiment questions. It now answers questions much like we do. By Carl Zimmer Companies like ...

Scientists have converted the blood type of a donor kidney and transplanted the organ into a person. The procedure — the first of its kind — could improve access to donor organs, specialists say, ...

SCIENTISTS IN AMERICA are used to being the best. The country is home to the world’s foremost universities, hosts the lion’s share of scientific Nobel laureates and has long been among the top ...

In the course of reporting this series on the impact of artificial intelligence on science and math, Quanta writers interviewed close to 100 experts — computer scientists, biologists, physicists, ...