Science

Federal regulators have suspended research on human subjects at the Columbia-affiliated New York State Psychiatric Institute, one of the country’s...

Not Everyone Is CelebratingPublic health groups including the American Lung Association, American Heart Association, American Academy of Pediatrics and the...

Susannah Woodruff can’t wait to stop pulling teeth out of polar bears.Dr. Woodruff, a wildlife biologist at the U.S. Fish...

Russia is going back to the moon too.For the first time since the space race with the United States in...

Alice Kahn Ladas, a psychologist and psychotherapist whose best-selling 1982 book, “The G Spot and Other Recent Discoveries About Human...

The prevailing theory about why the peacocks flocked to suburban Pinecrest is that, like many a Floridian, they went hunting...

A 65-year-old woman was bitten by a shark Monday afternoon at Rockaway Beach, the authorities said, in what appeared to...

Some things need no translation. No matter what language you speak, you can probably recognize a fellow human who is...

Residents in Alaska’s capital, Juneau, were urged on Monday to stay away from the Mendenhall River after flooding from a...

Off the western shores of Central and South America, there is a Lovecraftian, lava-licked realm thousands of feet beneath the...