BLOOMINGTON − WonderLab employees and visitors are mourning the death of one of the science museum's most beloved creatures.

Neuroscientist Steve Ramirez has found ways to plant memories in mice. Here's what that could mean for humans.

The year's top paleontological wonders ranged from a 540-million-year-old penis worm to a decades-old rodent impression.

Over 70 new species, from insects to dinosaurs, were identified in 2025 by combining fieldwork, museum collections, and ...

Despite the high stakes, the tiny caterpillar in the lab in Albuquerque, N.M., was not given a name. It’s the last known ...

A fossil smaller than a human fingernail has revealed a complete ancient brain, turning a speck of stone into a detailed map ...

Thirty years ago, astronomers weren’t sure planets beyond our solar system even existed. This year, NASA has confirmed its ...

Bill shape affects how efficiently a hummingbird feeds and how it competes with other hummingbirds. Because of humans, they ...

The Ocean Genome Legacy Center and other biorepositories like it are increasingly crucial to climate change research as ...

Scientist Amanda Nguyen revealed that she fell into a depression amid the negative backlash to April's Blue Origin flight ...

It’s hard to keep up with all the discoveries made around the world every year in science, but harder still to sort the hype ...

During some years in the 1960s and 1970s, thousands of evening grosbeaks visited Pennsylvania, often in flocks of 50 or more.