Science

Like basketball scouts discovering a nimble, super-tall teenager, astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope reported recently that they had identified a small, captivating group of baby galaxies near the dawn of...

Why It Matters: A Potential Warning SignShu Jiang, the study’s lead author and an associate professor of public health sciences at Washington University, said the findings might provide an individualized and dynamic...

A man who has fathered between 550 and 600 children over the past 16 years is not allowed to donate any more sperm to prospective parents, a court in the Netherlands ruled...

First the bad news. The two coffee species that most of us drink — Arabica and robusta — are at grave risk in the era of climate change.Now the good news. Farmers...

This article is part of our Museums special section about how art institutions are reaching out to new artists and attracting new audiences.Beatrix Potter’s tales about the frolics and misadventures of Peter...

The United States is wiring Ukraine with sensors that can detect‌‌ bursts of radiation from a nuclear weapon or a dirty bomb and can confirm the identity of the attacker.In part, the...

On warm evenings near Rio de Janeiro, you might find milk fruit trees covered in brownish-orange frogs. While many frogs eat insects, the tree frog species Xenohyla truncata has a taste for...

When it comes to growing food, some of the smallest farmers in the world are becoming some of the most creative farmers in the world. Like Judith Harry and her neighbors, they...

Why It MattersScientists still do not fully understand how dust and gas in the early solar system coalesced into moons and planets.Like the first ring around Quaoar, announced by a team of...

It has been 20 years since scientists put together the first rough draft of the human genome, the three billion genetic letters of DNA tightly wound inside most of our cells. Today,...