Science

U.S. students in most states and across almost all demographic groups have experienced troubling setbacks in both math and reading,...

Scientists at Boston University came under fire this week for an experiment in which they tinkered with the Covid virus....

M.I.T. announced the selection of a new president, Sally Kornbluth, a cell biologist and provost at Duke University. She will...

The new report builds on earlier studies from the same research group. In one study, researchers also detected benzene and...

This article is part of our Fine Arts & Exhibits special section on how museums, galleries and auction houses are...

CLINTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. — On a glorious autumn afternoon, Rosa Yoo stepped off a road at the Round Valley Recreation...

It was easy for scientists to have doubts when they were told that the carcass of a colossal fish had...

“We’ve seen this association between hair straighteners and breast, ovarian and now uterine cancer — it’s been a consistent finding...

Bananas, it turns out, are not what we thought they were.Sure, most, when ripe, are yellow and sweet and delicious...

Nigeria’s minister of humanitarian affairs, Sadiya Umar Farouq, blamed the scale of the disaster on the failure by branches of...