Science

We would not count ourselves as birders. Elaine, who visited the Everglades occasionally when she lived in Miami, knows a purple gallinule when she sees one. Alan can tell a red-tailed hawk...

A magical material that could effortlessly conduct electricity at room temperatures would likely transform civilization, reclaiming energy otherwise lost to electrical resistance and opening possibilities for novel technologies.Yet a claim of such...

Tropical Storm Cindy formed late Thursday, becoming the third named storm of the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season.The National Hurricane Center estimates the storm had sustained winds of 40 miles per hour, with...

The county is seeking more than $1.5 billion in damages from the defendants, who also include Peabody Energy, ConocoPhillips and Occidental Petroleum.“This lawsuit is about accountability and fairness, and I believe the...

“We’ve never had an accident like this,” James Cameron, the Oscar-winning director of “Titanic,” said on Thursday.Mr. Cameron, an expert in submersibles, has dived dozens of times to the ship’s deteriorating hulk...

Protecting coastal areas of the ocean from fishing, mining and other human activity can also help people living nearby, according to a study published on Thursday in the journal Nature Sustainability.People living...

Firouz Naderi, an Iranian American scientist who directed the Mars program at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, including two successful landings on the planet, died on June 9 in Los Angeles. He was...

Dr. Petroski was born on Feb. 6, 1942, in Brooklyn and grew up there and in Queens. His mother, Victoria (Grygrowych) Petroski, was a homemaker. His father, also named Henry, was a...

We fell for an hour, the views out of our observation ports fading slowly to pitch darkness. That made it all the more interesting when, at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean...

The calls came in, one after the other, with reports of sea lions swaying their heads back and forth, foaming at the mouth, or slumped, lifeless on the beach. Rescuers along the...