A 28-year-old man from Mexico — labeled as an illegal alien — is facing federal charges after gunfire in a Danville ...

A mind wrapped in skin and bone can feel like the obvious model for consciousness. But that assumption may say more about where you live than about what consciousness really requires.

Octopuses, bees, and dogs all process information differently. Even within the narrow confines of one planet, evolution produced a wide range of nervous systems rather than a single design. A new ...

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations suggest that the two day-night boundary zones on the gas exoplanet WASP-121 b are chemically different from each other. On this ultra-hot exoplanet, dawn ...

JWST has revealed dramatic differences between the dawn and dusk regions of the scorching exoplanet WASP-121 b. Fierce winds appear to carry heat from the planet’s permanent dayside, making the ...

Astronomers have revealed distinct differences in atmospheric conditions between the morning and evening transition zones of the ultra-hot gas planet WASP-121 b, which separate day from night, ...

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This image provided by NASA shows the interstellar ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has produced one of the most detailed atmospheric studies ever captured for a distant world. Using a powerful observational technique, Webb created what scientists ...

Artistic representation of WASP-94A b, a gas giant in the Microscopium constellation. Clouds build as air flows over the dark side of the planet, reaching a large swell by daybreak. The clouds ...

Source: Bryant Ross / Used with permission. When I came across Susan Cormier's new book Dead Bees Still Sting, I was expecting a memoir of beekeeping. It is so much more! In the tradition of Henry ...

I'm so glad I chose to work shorter hours. It's only my third day back, but I truly feel that way. I have taken maternity and childcare leave three times. With my first child, I still felt like there ...

Macro bee photographer and conservationist Krystle Hickman recently published "The ABCs of California Native Bees." (Photo by Brian van der Brug) The Bohart Museum of Entomology at UC Davis is the ...