Science

“Society,” he added, “is way ahead of the law here.”More than two dozen countries have laws decreasing penalties and providing...

A number of cities vie for the unofficial title of “seafood capital of the world,” and Lisbon has a good...

Lisanne Taams, a student at Radboud University in the Netherlands, is working on a Ph.D. about, in her words, “computing...

It’s grim, but in every post-apocalyptic story line, I wait for the moment when the characters float their theories about...

ATOP MAUNA KEA, Hawaii — Two and a half miles above the Pacific, with the combined exhalations of a vast...

A teenage girl died after she was attacked by a shark while swimming in a river in Western Australia on...

In 1976, Gary Frank Sotherden’s appetite for adventure and the outdoors led him to the Arctic Circle, where he and...

STOCKENBOI, Austria — Sandro Huter was determined to defend his bees, which were facing a looming death sentence.A beekeeper in...

In his 1931 book, “How to Tell Your Friends From the Apes,” the American satirist Will Cuppy noted that Neanderthals...

Turning off lights is another important step people can take to help birds, and not just in windows. Lights draw...