Science

New research painted a more accurate picture of the megafauna that spread widely around the Americas before they went extinct.

Leonardo Augustus Patterson was born on April 15, 1942, in Limon, a town on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica....

After listening to hundreds of hours of ape calls, a team of scientists say they have detected a hallmark of...

The nation’s most polluting coal-burning power plant has asked President Trump to exempt it from stricter limits on hazardous air...

Ralph Holloway, an anthropologist who pioneered the idea that changes in brain structure, and not just size, were critical in...

The Trump administration has abruptly laid off the entire staff running a $4.1 billion program to help low-income households across...

When lightning strikes a tree in the tropics, the whole forest explodes.“At their most extreme, it kind of looks like...

More than 600 miles separated the epicenter of Friday’s earthquake in Myanmar from the skyscrapers of Bangkok, which lurched and...

For a creature made up of only a single cell, the stentor is a giant. This trumpet-shape organism is among...

When the environmental group Greenpeace lost a nearly $670 million verdict this month over its role in oil pipeline protests,...