Science

The last time Christine Dawood saw her husband, Shahzada, and their son, Suleman, they were specks on the North Atlantic,...

Everybody’s quick to see a cannibal. The Romans thought the ancient Britons feasted on human flesh, and the British thought...

On a muggy June night in Greenwich Village, more than 800 neuroscientists, philosophers and curious members of the public packed...

Why It Matters: Combining vaccines could offer longevity.Oral polio vaccines, administered in droplet form, have driven down polio cases by...

It’s been described as a plague and a sign of the end times, turning New York City into the “Bug...

Most people try, or at least hope, to avoid ticks. The tiny arachnids spread a variety of harmful diseases, as...

A treacherous one-two punch of heat and fire, aggravated by the burning of oil and gas, scorched a large swath...

When wildfire smoke began blanketing New York City in June, employees at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, an architecture and design...

If you end up becoming one of the hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers expected to be bitten by a...

Put a cuttlefish on the spot — or, to be more exact, a series of spots — and it will...