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Using AI to learn math concepts can boost understanding. But if used to get quick answers, AI can become a crutch that hurts learning.

Worker bees build some ‘cribs’ with a special wax. It seems to turn larva into royals — and challenges the idea that royal jelly was all it took.

This field of science identifies the environmental cues behind life cycle patterns.

The new microraptor, Jian changmaensis , may have snacked on birds when not gliding through northwestern China some 120 million years ago.

Short for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, ADHD affects how people think, learn and process information.

The shape-shifting transformation of Euplotes gigatrox may reveal how early life learned to act in complex ways.

More and more young people are turning to AI chatbots for mental health help. There can be risks, and it’s important to know what they are, experts say.

Little is known about these elusive soil-dwellers that resemble both worms and snakes.

The puffiest planets known in our galaxy orbit a sunlike star more than 1,000 light-years from Earth.

Machines can now print tissues, layer by layer, using “inks” made of living cells. This technology brings lab-grown organs closer to reality.

These super high-tech timepieces use the chemical element thorium to keep time. And as the clocks improve, they could help solve some mysteries in physics.

These super high-tech timepieces use the chemical element thorium to keep time. And as the clocks improve, they could help solve some mysteries in physics.

Adult finches make “heat calls” to their eggs when temps rise. Exposure to those songs trigger chicks' developing brains to change in ways that better handle heat.

Low-lying fog clouds host living microbes. That may be good news, because some of them can remove toxic air pollutants, such as formaldehyde.

FDA will now allow the use of bemotrizinol in U.S. sunscreens. This long-lasting chemical protects against the solar radiation that ages and damages skin.

Future forensic scientists, get out your corn syrup and red food coloring! It’s time to fake a crime scene.

Crystals beneath the skin of nudibranchs, also called sea slugs, allow the creatures to make an array of intense hues with just one material.

Tiny water-oozing pores appear to shape the leaves’ veins into a “Voronoi diagram.”

These dramatic, steep-sided sea inlets form when glaciers carve deep channels from the terrain.