Science

Scientists and activists have long argued at global climate summits that the only way to slow down global warming is...

One day recently, on a table in Jean Oh’s lab in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, a robot arm...

Down the drain is where British archaeologists recently discovered 36 artfully engraved semiprecious stones, in an ancient bathhouse at the...

The United States is wiring Ukraine with sensors that can detect‌‌ bursts of radiation from a nuclear weapon or a...

On warm evenings near Rio de Janeiro, you might find milk fruit trees covered in brownish-orange frogs. While many frogs...

It has been 20 years since scientists put together the first rough draft of the human genome, the three billion...

When it comes to growing food, some of the smallest farmers in the world are becoming some of the most...

Moths and other insects are drawn to lights at night as reliably as planets orbit stars.Entomologists have long exploited this...

Two and a half years of meager rain have shriveled crops, killed livestock and brought the Horn of Africa, one...

BackgroundDr. Lieber, now 64, had been chairman of Harvard’s chemistry and chemical biology department. For his work on nanotechnology, he...