Science

Six wooden skiffs set out from the town of Sunbury-on-Thames this month on a five-day mission with a single goal:...

Got any dead butterflies lying around? Consider sending them to the U.S. government.Officials with the United States Geological Survey, an...

Even by the extraordinary standards of contemporary political theater, Wednesday’s House Oversight subcommittee hearing on U.F.O.s stood out.There, in a...

Today it is Bavaria, a region of Germany. But in the Late Jurassic Period, it was a shallow tropical archipelago...

While diamonds might look pretty perched atop a ring, the rocks they hail from venture to Earth’s surface in a...

A new analysis of data from a large clinical trial of healthy older adults found higher rates of brain bleeding...

Did Covid jump from an animal to a person at a food market in Wuhan, China — or leak from...

He evokes the psychic force field of money and power as it warps the ethics even of distinguished, principled doctors...

For animals that humans almost drove into extinction, there’s a lot about whales we still don’t know. Consider the bowhead...

The last time there was a major slowdown in the mighty network of ocean currents that shapes the climate around...