Science

Disasters can push the world’s poorest deeper into poverty. Now aid agencies are trying something new. They’re giving small bits...

Frank Field, who as a meteorologist brought a groundbreaking credential to his job as a television weather forecaster in New...

From toxic algal blooms in the Great Lakes to sewage pouring into Detroit basements to choking wildfire smoke that drifted...

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...