Science

When born, baby caecilians — legless amphibians that look like a mash-up of a snake and a worm — use their tiny hook-shaped teeth to scrape off their mother’s skin and feast....

The Food and Drug Administration has proposed banning hair-straightening products that contain or emit formaldehyde, more than a decade after the cosmetic industry’s own experts declared the products unsafe.Frequent use of chemical...

On June 4, 2013, Buck 8917 did something weird, for a deer: He took a long, purposeful walk.Researchers from Penn State had captured and put a GPS collar on the adult male...

Questions about whether Covid leaked from a Chinese laboratory have cast a chill over American virus research, drying up funding for scientists who collect or alter dangerous pathogens and intensifying a debate...

The NewsAn Oxford University researcher and her team showed that digital wearable devices can track the progression of Parkinson’s disease in an individual more effectively than human clinical observation can, according to...

The NewsAn Oxford University researcher and her team showed that digital wearable devices can track the progression of Parkinson’s disease in an individual more effectively than human clinical observation can, according to...

On Aug. 15, a small wildfire was detected in the hills above West Kelowna, in British Columbia. The landscape was parched and the wind was fierce, and over the next few days...

A trail of darkness swept across the Western Hemisphere on Saturday, starting at the Oregon coast and then venturing to the southwest as it cut through Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Texas and...

Maybe you experienced Saturday’s annular eclipse and just can’t get enough. Maybe the weather or some other cause has left you with astronomical FOMO. The good news is that another eclipse is...

Ryuzo Yanagimachi, whose long career as a pioneer in fertility research culminated in 1997 with the successful cloning of multiple generations of mice — a leap ahead of the announcement of the...