Science

Ferid Murad, a pharmacologist whose research into the effects of nitric oxide on the heart and blood vessels enabled widespread...

Millions of years ago, a simian ancestor of humanity decided to climb a tree. It may have been looking for...

A sharp increase in the number of an invasive species of hornets in Britain is raising concerns that they could...

If, on a hot, dry day a fire should break out within a certain 300,000-acre patch of northwest Montana, in...

If reports from the time are to be believed, 17th-century Poland was awash in revenants — not vampires, exactly, but...

Marilyn Lovell, who, as an object of fascination for the news media, the inspiration for movie and TV characters and...

Sunset along the Kakhovka Reservoir in central Ukraine, especially in summer, used to be gorgeous: kids played in the shallow...

Although scientists have long known that flora and fauna in Central Europe still carry traces of radiation stemming from the...

Snakes can’t really unhinge their jaws, but for some, that doesn’t get in the way of swallowing absurdly large prey.For...

Federal officials have discovered major errors in the systems and procedures that some states have been using to verify eligibility...