Science

An asteroid-chasing spacecraft just swung past Mars on Wednesday. As it zipped by, it took hundreds of shots of the...

Ingrid Daubechies, a mathematician at Duke University, is an expert on many matters, not least the baking of cookies in...

Johns Hopkins University, one of the country’s leading centers of scientific research, said on Thursday that it would eliminate more...

President Trump’s cabinet has been busy rolling back of regulations that will make it far easier to extract and produce...

The story of how James Reason became an authority on the psychology of human error begins with a teapot.It was...

Dr. Dave Weldon, a former Republican representative and President Trump’s pick to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,...

Starlink, Elon Musk’s satellite communications company, fought behind the scenes for months to break into India’s internet business. The market...

For an animal with an ivory appendage half the length of its body protruding from the top of its head,...

Bill Diller, a photographer living in Huron County, Mich., had never seen a snowy owl quite like this.In January, Mr....

Maybe that was a true reflection of reality. Our dogs regularly romped through Prospect Park in Brooklyn, swapped germs with...