Science

As a marine biologist, Lorian Schweikert knew hogfish could change color to match their surroundings. But as an angler, she...

In everyday speech, freezing is often conflated with tonic immobility, but they are not the same — tonic immobility is...

Japan will begin releasing treated radioactive wastewater from the ruined Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant into the ocean this week, its...

Nuclear war has returned to the realm of dinner table conversation, weighing on the minds of the public more than...

A research team was combing the coastline of southwest Portugal in 2019 in search of signs of how its ecosystem...

The first terrifying wave of Covid-19 caused 60,000 deaths among residents of nursing homes and other long-term care facilities within...

For California, where punishing droughts over the past two decades have shriveled crops and caused wells to run dry, it...

The Thar Desert today is a scorching region in western India’s Rajasthan state. But in the Mesozoic Era, it was...

The Back Story: An infection that surprises beachgoers.It’s not clear whether the appearance of these cases farther north than usual...

Each planet of the solar system has its own look. Earth has aquamarine oceans. Jupiter has panchromatic tempests. Saturn has...