"...our view is that animals, like humans, can make hypotheses and they can test them and may use higher cognitive processes to do it."

TorNet, a public artificial intelligence dataset, could help models reveal when and why tornadoes form, improving forecasters' ability to issue warnings.

"...when it comes to understanding memory, there's a lot to be discovered about how it actually works," Fernanda Morales-Calva says.

Adolescents treat ‘for you’ algorithms as a social mirror and are willing to give up privacy to use it.

Engineered bacteria could pave the way "renewable chemicals to be produced that do not burden the environment," researchers say.

Early-life trauma can cut short the lives of red squirrels in the Yukon. But "food booms" can help boost their resilience to adversity.

A giant prehistoric salmon, the largest to ever exist, had spiky tusk-like teeth that protruded straight out of the side of its skull.