Science

You know the story: Somewhere in the mythical Mediterranean, the hero Odysseus’s scouts went ashore and ate a food that made them forget that they wanted to go home. When Odysseus found...

When Cameron Hamilton took the helm of the Federal Emergency Management Agency at the start of President Trump’s second term, he wasn’t an obvious choice: He had worked in emergency situations in...

Blurry photos are often held up as supposed evidence of elusive creatures like Nessie and Bigfoot. But the subject of a fuzzy photo taken nearly two decades ago in remote forests of...

With a flap of its wings, something resembling a bird dives into the water, swims around and soars back into the skies. But it’s not a bird, it’s a robot. And the...

Roger Worthington flitted around his sprawling brewery in the mountain town of Bend, Ore., on a recent Saturday, moving with a frenetic energy. He tried a new wings recipe from his young...

President Trump on Monday reduced the size of two national monuments in Utah by nearly 3 million acres, teeing up a legal battle over whether presidents have the power to shrink such...

On Saturday night, Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, died of an aortic dissection — a rip in the aorta, the main artery carrying blood from the heart to the rest...

On a recent day, Mr. Frist spoke by Zoom from his office in Nashville, surrounded by photos and mementos. A map of Tennessee, rendered in green thread on reclaimed barn wood, to...

Dr. Richard Scolyer, a world-renowned Australian pathologist whose research into melanoma broadened the medical community’s understanding and diagnosis of what is called the country’s national cancer because of its prevalence, died on...

Less than 24 hours after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. became the nation’s health secretary, his press secretary delivered an order from him to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Take down...