Science

After just a bit more than a year and a half, 819, or 11.7 percent, of patients in the bempedoic acid group had one of the heart-related complications.In the placebo group, 927...

With a bite that could split a shark in two and an armored mug only a mother could love, Dunkleosteus was one of Earth’s earliest apex predators, terrorizing subtropical seas 360 million...

The project is a collaboration among scientists in the United States, Ukraine and Poland, as well as the Clean Futures Fund, a nonprofit based in the United States that works in Chernobyl. The...

Studying the venom of bees, wasps and ants, he was stung hundreds of times and famously ranked the stings in a colorful pain scale index.

Owls have beguiled humans forever. And it’s easy to see ourselves in a chubby little homebody who ditched his one-room apartment for the great outdoors.

To thrive, ant colonies rely on everyone pulling their weight. For raider ants, this means diligent scouts track down other nests, then direct hundreds of savage foragers to attack. They return with...

It took the Covid-19 pandemic and a class held on Zoom for the entomologist to give a long-forgotten insect specimen another look.With the world in lockdown in the fall of 2020, Michael...

Dolphins, pilot whales and sperm whales use echolocation clicks to hunt and subdue their prey. But the animals, known as toothed whales, also produce other sounds for social communication, like grunts and...

In the 1800s, archaeologists began reconstructing the deep history of Europe from the bones of ancient hunter-gatherers and the iconic art they left behind, like cave paintings, fertility figurines and “lion-man” statues.Over the...

Get ready for some roaring new rockets in March.As many as three launchers that have never traveled to space could try to reach orbit in the coming month.Relativity Space, an American company,...