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Bruce the Kea parrot is missing the upper half of his beak, but he has turned this disability into a weapon to keep subordinates in line

It turns out that salmon exposed to cocaine through water pollution do a lot of swimming—which may not be a good thing

This year’s winners include hundreds of physicists across more than 30 institutions

Recently uncovered damage to walls in Pompeii displays patterns that may have been made by an ancient “machine gun” called a polybolos

“Cocaine hippos,” underground bees, and fresh insights into aging and heart health

The Lyrid meteor shower is peaking from April 21 to April 22. Here’s how to spot this annual celestial light show

Military strategists use game theory to evaluate possible strategies—but there are limits to what this approach to decision-making can achieve

A dispute over how to divvy up the pot in an interrupted game of chance led early mathematicians to invent modern risk assessment

For decades, mathematician Frank Merle has been embracing the messy math behind lasers and fluids

The world of peptides has exploded in wellness circles, but the benefits of injecting these gray-market molecules rest on little clinical evidence

Quantum science and AI research are big winners just a year after this U.S. funding giant slashed its Graduate Research Fellowship Program awards in half

For years, art historians believed The Baptism of Christ was likely painted by El Greco with assistance from other artists. But new research suggests otherwise