Science

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...

In 2002, Sean O’Keefe, then the NASA administrator, announced that the agency’s next telescope would be named for James Webb,...