Science

Federal regulators on Monday approved sweeping changes to how America’s electric grids are planned and funded, in a move that...

Officials in Alameda, Calif., have told scientists to stop testing a device that might one day be used to artificially...

The spectacular aurora borealis, the nighttime light display triggered by solar flares that has been so unusually prevalent since Friday,...

Almost every plant we eat has a flower, and flowering plants populate every corner of the planet. But many questions...

People in Britain marveled at the unusual and spectacular sight of the northern lights on Friday night, the consequence of...

Nancy Neveloff Dubler, a medical ethicist who pioneered using mediation at hospital bedsides to navigate the complex dynamics among headstrong...

The oldest evidence of wildfire in the world can be found in a laboratory on the fourth floor of a...

On the night of Sept. 2, 2018, a fire swept through the National Museum of Brazil, devastating the country’s oldest...

Dr. Herbert Pardes, a psychiatrist and a former director of the National Institute of Mental Health who brought order to...

When Anna Sagatov, an underwater cinematographer, goes on her usual night dives off La Jolla Shores in San Diego, she’s...