Science

In 2013, astronomers discovered a couple of rings around Chariklo, a body known as a centaur that orbits the sun...

New Zealand has been a haven for earthbound birds for eons. The absence of terrestrial predators allowed flightless parrots, kiwis...

“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...