Science

Helen Hays, an intrepid ornithologist who for nearly 50 years led scores of volunteers to Great Gull Island, a postage-stamp...

The inner core at the center of the Earth, a ball of iron and nickel about 1,500 miles wide, may...

The draft was almost ready for submission, due in less than a month. More than 150 scientists and other experts...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, or NASEM, is an independent, 162-year-old nongovernmental agency tasked with investigating and...

Cursing is coursing through society. Words once too blue to publicly utter have become increasingly commonplace. “Language is just part...

An abandoned gunpowder storage shed pokes out from a small mound of earth in what’s now a nature preserve in...

Cats that became infected with bird flu might have spread the virus to humans in the same household and vice...

The English language is full of wonderful words, from “anemone” and “aurora” to “zenith” and “zodiac.”But these are special occasion...

The vast majority of plants are hermaphrodites, with both male and female reproductive parts. Oaks, some orchids, the potted spider...

With serpentine necks, flippers and a mouth full of needle-sharp teeth, plesiosaurs have captured imaginations since paleontologists uncovered the first...