Science

The iron rock’s journey from the depths of space ended with a thud in a dense pine forest, about an...

Rat droppings from New York City. Poop from dog parks in Wisconsin. Human waste from a Missouri hospital. These are...

Last fall, a NASA spacecraft named OSIRIS-REx dropped a capsule containing more than 120 grams of space dust into the...

One crawled across the rain-drenched ground of what is now Texas more than 270 million years ago, possibly feasting on...

This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported...

Few parents would describe the smells emanating from their adolescent children as redolent of sandalwood. But one of the distinct...

Black henbane has been found at archaeological sites in the Netherlands that date back to the Neolithic Period. But because...

A remarkably early, record-breaking heat wave hit the southern part of West Africa in mid-February. Climate change made this extreme...

Frans de Waal, who used his study of the inner lives of animals to build a powerful case that apes...

Parrots have much in common with toddlers. The brainy birds can learn to recognize colors and shapes, manipulate objects, build...