Science

Menopause is all too familiar to women, but in other species it’s remarkably rare. Last year, scientists reported that females...

Through his office window, the head of Brazil’s state-run oil company looked out at the cluttered landscape of Rio de...

Female elephant seals are not delicate creatures. They are rippling tubes of muscle and blubber that can weigh more than...

Scientists have discovered that blind cave salamanders in northern Italy leave their underground homes to go on expeditions to the...

This spring, when the ground temperature hits 64 degrees Fahrenheit, trillions of cicadas will dig their way up from beneath...

In January of 2014, a meteor fell from space off the coast of Papua New Guinea. That might have been...

In 1889, a French doctor named Francois-Gilbert Viault climbed down from a mountain in the Andes, drew blood from his...

More than two weeks after a cyberattack, financially strapped doctors, hospitals and medical providers on Friday sharply criticized UnitedHealth Group’s...

In the 1960s, secret test flights of advanced government spy planes generated U.F.O. sightings. More recently, government and commercial drones,...

If you keep a close eye on the night sky in the weeks and months ahead, you may spot something...