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More debris and presumed human remains have been recovered from the Titan submersible, the U.S. Coast Guard said, months after the vessel imploded, killing five people as they were descending into the...

The bodies of the dead drift to the bottom of the ocean, where the bottom dwellers make use of them. They make temporary reefs from the bones of modern whales, and they...

Some male frogs cannot take a hint. Come spring, they pile onto potential mates in such a determined frenzy that the females may drown.That’s why the females have developed tricks for getting...

Scientists have used the gene-editing technology known as CRISPR to create chickens that have some resistance to avian influenza, according to a new study that was published in the journal Nature Communications...

On Oct. 14, an annular eclipse will make its way across the Western Hemisphere. The moon, farther from Earth than during a total eclipse, will block much of our view of the...

The flu typically kills the very young, the old and the sick. That made the virus in 1918 unusual, or so the story goes: It killed healthy young people as readily as...

Aries, an Anatolian shepherd, warily watches a stranger approach a pen where he and other members of his family — including eight fuzzy, 2-month-old puppies — roam alongside a grunting pig and...

Millions of birds fly over Chicago during the fall migration season, and a number of them die after being confused by bright lights or after trying to fly through a window, but...

Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together.In one corner of the low-roofed shed, a cluster of mosquitoes, most likely...

Quotable Quote: On getting to Mars.”I think it’s sort of feasible within the next four years to do an uncrewed test landing there,” Mr. Musk told Clay Mowry, the president of the...