Science

If, on a hot, dry day a fire should break out within a certain 300,000-acre patch of northwest Montana, in...

If reports from the time are to be believed, 17th-century Poland was awash in revenants — not vampires, exactly, but...

Marilyn Lovell, who, as an object of fascination for the news media, the inspiration for movie and TV characters and...

Sunset along the Kakhovka Reservoir in central Ukraine, especially in summer, used to be gorgeous: kids played in the shallow...

Although scientists have long known that flora and fauna in Central Europe still carry traces of radiation stemming from the...

Snakes can’t really unhinge their jaws, but for some, that doesn’t get in the way of swallowing absurdly large prey.For...

Federal officials have discovered major errors in the systems and procedures that some states have been using to verify eligibility...

In late 1985, weeks after the shattered remains of the R.M.S. Titanic came to light, officials in Washington began seeking...

Over the last three years, a highly lethal form of avian influenza has whipped around the world, felling birds in...

The salmon were once so plentiful in the river that old-timers talk about having been able to cross on the...