Science

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...

A young woman visited New York Eye & Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai Hospital shortly after the eclipse of Aug....

In 2002, a crew of paleoanthropologists were working in northwestern Ethiopia when they came across chipped stones and fossilized animal...

The highest governing body in geology has upheld a contested vote by scientists against adding the Anthropocene, or human age,...

Measles, a highly contagious but preventable disease, is resurging in pockets of the United States, a warning of the dangers...

A French mathematician is the recipient of this year’s Abel Prize, the math equivalent of the Nobel, for advances in...

Three millenniums ago, a small, prosperous farming community briefly flourished in the freshwater marshes of eastern England. The inhabitants lived...

And unlike pop-culture portrayals of theoretical physicists — solitarily scribbling away on blackboards, enveloped in clouds of chalk dust —...