Science

Antimatter just lost a little more pizazz.Physicists know that for every fundamental particle in nature there is an antiparticle —...

Fairy circles inspire wonder in viewers and fuel contention among experts. For decades, scientists have hotly debated the origin of...

Millions of years ago, this desert in Peru was a gathering place for fantastical sea creatures: whales that walked, dolphins...

The pangolin is an absurd animal, a mammal that’s dressed up as a reptile with a coat of scales, sharp...

It’s been about 250 million years since reptile-like animals evolved into mammals. Now a team of scientists is predicting that...

In 1842, a vast, nearly intact skeleton was unearthed on a plantation in Alabama; it was soon identified as a...

On Sunday morning, a brown-and-white capsule will shoot through Earth’s atmosphere to drop off a cache of pristine space rock...

Espen Finstad was trudging through mud in the Jotunheimen mountains of eastern Norway this month when he happened upon a...

In the dappled sunlit waters of Caribbean mangrove forests, tiny box jellyfish bob in and out of the shade. Box...

Three years after its marathon voyage across the Central Arctic Ocean frozen in the ice, the German scientific research ship...