Science

Moths and other insects are drawn to lights at night as reliably as planets orbit stars.Entomologists have long exploited this fact by setting out light traps whenever they want to collect insects....

Two and a half years of meager rain have shriveled crops, killed livestock and brought the Horn of Africa, one of the world’s poorest regions, to famine’s brink. Millions of people have...

BackgroundDr. Lieber, now 64, had been chairman of Harvard’s chemistry and chemical biology department. For his work on nanotechnology, he had been seen by some as a contender for the Nobel Prize.Since...

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration’s plan to limit, for the first time, greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants could hinge on the ability of plant operators to capture carbon dioxide before...

A patch of pure nothing in a faraway galaxy has lately become the gravitational center of attention for radio astronomers. That would be a giant black hole, with the gravity of 6.5...

This article is part of our Museums special section about how art institutions are reaching out to new artists and attracting new audiences.Jessica Ware, an associate curator for the American Museum of...

In 2011, a gorilla named Zola gained internet fame when the Calgary Zoo posted a video that showed him spinning in circles on his knuckles and heels with what appeared to be...

Las personas contagiadas de coronavirus son mucho más propensas a que se les diagnostique diabetes tipo 2 en el año siguiente a su infección, en comparación con las que no han estado...

A Japanese company has lost contact with a small robotic spacecraft it was sending to the moon. Analysis of data from the vehicle suggests it ran out of propellant during its final...

The newsGlobal warming is making dangerously hot weather more common, and more extreme, on every continent. A new study by researchers in Britain takes a unique approach to identifying which places are...