Science

The stories the mothers tell when they gather at the Awendo Health Centre in western Kenya are a catalog of...

Walliserops trifurcatus wasn’t like the other trilobites. Sure, it had a body like a cross between a pillbug and a...

In ecology, as in comedy, timing is everything.Hours, minutes or even seconds can make the difference for an animal between...

ABOARD A GULFSTREAM IV, over the Pacific — The winter storms pounding California this month have often come into being...

YASUNÍ NATIONAL PARK, Ecuador — In a swath of lush Amazon rainforest here, near some of the last Indigenous people...

The Dallas Zoo said on Friday afternoon that a clouded leopard that had been missing all day had been recovered...

In late June 1961, Mr. Keller and a Life magazine writer, Kenneth MacLeish, dove to a record depth of 728...

In the late 1970s, scientists at Exxon fitted one of the company’s supertankers with state-of-the-art equipment to measure carbon dioxide...

Virgin Orbit, the company that tried to launch satellites into space from Britain for the first time earlier this week,...

Eva-Maria Sadowski, a postdoctoral researcher at the Natural History Museum in Berlin, didn’t have a particular agenda in mind when...