Science

Numerous programs aimed at averting violence, instability and extremism worsened by global warming are ensnared in the effort to dismantle...

Scientists have long struggled to understand how human language evolved. Words and sentences don’t leave fossils behind for paleontologists to...

Louis Pasteur was at his most comfortable when working in his Paris laboratory. It was there that he had some...

At the annual gathering in Boston this week of one of America’s oldest scientific societies, the discussions touched on threats...

By any measure, the diabetes drug Ozempic has been a blockbuster, racking up billions of dollars in annual sales. In...

Eleanor Maguire, a cognitive neuroscientist whose research on the human hippocampus — especially those belonging to London taxi drivers —...

A Texas county is taking steps to declare a state of emergency and seek federal assistance over farmland contaminated with...

Hummingbirds are tiny and delicate, but don’t be fooled: They are among the most aggressive birds in the avian kingdom....

Above the shores of prehistoric seas and lakes, pterosaurs roamed the skies. They were feathered creatures that ranged in size...

Louisiana officials seeking to prosecute a New York doctor who sent abortion medication to a resident of that state were...