Science

This weekend, millions of people will feast their eyes on the latest celestial marvel: an annular solar eclipse gracing the skies of the Western Hemisphere.The “ring of fire” eclipse will begin in...

Stone Age-cartoon enthusiasts will recall that Fred Flintstone polished off racks of brontosaurus ribs and that Wilma Flintstone swanned around in a Siberian mastodon fur coat. As it turns out, the Neanderthals...

A first glimpse of the jackpot from a seven-year mission to bring back bits of an asteroid was unveiled on Wednesday.NASA officials in Houston displayed images of salt-and-pepper chunks of rock and...

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...