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Walking to the store, getting dressed, climbing the stairs - the basics of an independent life all get harder with age. A new study finds that people with less wealth lose those abilities years sooner. And where they live could change how many years. In E

Late summer looks lush, but for honeybees, it's actually the hungriest time of year. New research suggests the fix might be sitting right there in your lawn, in the form of thistles, ragwort, and other plants most people pull out on sight. The study was l

Africa once supported many more giant plant eaters than it does today. These animals helped shape how ecosystems worked, so their disappearance altered the environments around them. Megaherbivores are very large plant-eating animals that weigh at least 2,

Free-to-play games cost nothing to install, and the money arrives afterward, through purchases the industry calls microtransactions. Among teenagers who paid anything at all, new research found that the highest-spending 10% accounted for 61.4% of everythi

Viral infections do not affect everyone in the same way. One person may recover quickly, while another becomes seriously ill, even when both face the same virus. Age, health, genes, and living conditions can affect how someone responds to a virus. Experim

Astronomers need reliable sky maps to answer larger questions about the universe. These maps show where objects appear, help telescope teams choose what to observe, and give researchers across many projects a shared view of the sky. The newest map from th

Pick between the bigger sandwich and the one you actually like, and you either grab one fast or stand there comparing. Two closely related fish in Lake Tanganyika split the same way. One of them decides in seconds, and the other slows down and uses everyt

Anyone walking through the Chocó forests of western Ecuador or southern Colombia after dark has probably heard the frog before seeing it. A loud, sharp click rings out from a shrub or bromeliad a few feet above the ground. For more than 40 years, anyone w

Today's Image of the Day from NASA reveals one of the busiest stellar nurseries near our galaxy in a burst of color. Thousands of young stars crowd a landscape of glowing gas and dust, while powerful stellar winds tear through the material around them. Th

On December 9, 2023, an enormous cloud of magnetized plasma erupted from the Sun and slammed into Mars. Solar physicists call these blasts coronal mass ejections, and this one hit hard. About 12 hours later, NASA's MAVEN orbiter flew straight through the