Science

If you loathe cockroaches, you’re going to love the emerald jewel wasp.Females of the species Ampulex compressa, known also as emerald cockroach wasps, are less than an inch long, and decked out...

Why It Matters: Covid is still dangerous to some Americans.More than 1,200 people are dying of Covid each week, according to C.D.C. data. “That’s a travesty,” said Dr. David Kimberlin, a pediatrician...

Yellowstone National Park is a North American hot spot for wildlife. The park’s mountains, forests and meadows are home to the largest concentration of mammals in the lower 48 states, including the...

Campsites may also still be available along the zone of totality, but they are booking up fast.In Indiana, some campgrounds around Monroe Lake, near Bloomington, are already full, but campsites with a...

For biologists, menopause is baffling. If natural selection favors genes that produce more descendants, why don’t women remain fertile their entire lives? What’s the evolutionary benefit of living for so many years...

In 2021, it seemed as if Mars had a surprisingly big heart. Scientists had been using InSight, a robotic lander to study the planet’s insides. The spacecraft had listened to enough marsquakes...

My paddle slips gently through calm ocean water as the kayak glides toward the mouth of Morro Bay Harbor. I approach a sandbar covered in resting cormorants, as sea otters float in...

At the bottom of the world, the floating edges of one of the enormous ice sheets covering Antarctica are facing an invisible threat, one that could add to rising sea levels around...

They call it Q-Day: the day when a quantum computer, one more powerful than any yet built, could shatter the world of privacy and security as we know it.It would happen through...

The problem is daunting: Powerful but expensive new drugs could help many of the 100 million American adults who have obesity and alleviate a grave public health concern.But how can the nation...