Science

“Dinosaurs” solidifies a new phase of Millet’s career. It’s written, like her last novel, the furious and gorgeous climate-crisis allegory...

The launching of NASA astronauts on SpaceX rockets has become routinely commonplace, but a Russian astronaut has yet to travel...

The tyrants who ruled Greek Sicilian cities in the Hellenic Age recruited soldiers of fortune for territorial expansion, and in...

Microcinematography can reveal wonders and horrors in the universe of tiny things living around us. A clown fish embryo maturing;...

Pizza rats. Trash pandas. Rats with wings. Animals in New York City seem like they thrive off New Yorkers’ refuse....

The F.D.A. has approved only two other A.L.S. medications. Riluzole, a tablet approved in 1995, can extend survival by several...

Mention the ocean, and it’s hard not to think of jaws. The deep waters contain many tooth-lined mouths: the bear-trap...

What the Jinks family wanted was to sue the memory care facility where their father, Charles, was attacked by another...

“This is perhaps the first step towards domestication,” said Benjamin Geffroy, a biologist at the University of Montpellier in France....

Right now, ants are scurrying around every continent except Antarctica, doing the hard work of engineering ecosystems. They spread seeds,...