Science

Americans in distress have a new number to dial for help — 988, a revamped National Suicide Prevention Lifeline that...

The new James Webb Space Telescope can capture photographs not only of galaxies across the universe, but also of objects...

In mid-2020, a team of scientists catching bats in Laotian caves discovered coronaviruses that were strikingly similar to the one...

WASHINGTON — First, he killed a plan that would have forced power plants to clean up their climate-warming pollution. Then,...

Watching a woodpecker repeatedly smash its face into a tree, it’s hard not to wonder how its brain stays intact.For...

The spread of drug-resistant infections surged during the coronavirus pandemic, killing nearly 30,000 people in 2020 and upending much of...

There are probably a few things that come to mind when you think of farmers. To list a few: overalls,...

I asked the heads of three trillion-tree organizations if anyone was keeping a global total of how many trees had...

Even reaching this point had taken decades of planning, threatened cancellations, delays upon delays, a pandemic and a round of...

The Webb telescope’s primary mirror is 6.5 meters in diameter, compared with Hubble’s, which is 2.4 meters, giving Webb about...