Science

Along hundreds of miles of Lake Victoria’s shoreline in Kenya, a squadron of young scientists and an army of volunteers...

Nobel Prize season is upon us once again. Every October, committees in Sweden and Norway name laureates in a variety...

Endel Tulving, whose insights into the structure of human memory and the way we recall the past revolutionized the field...

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...