Science

Many things can get in the way of asking others for help: Fear of rejection. Fear of imposing. The pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps mythology so ingrained in American culture.But new research suggests many of us...

HOUSTON — He’s known as the father of environmental justice, but more than half a century ago he was just Bob Bullard from Elba, a flyspeck town deep in Alabama that didn’t...

WASHINGTON — President Biden has selected Dr. Renee Wegrzyn, a Boston biotech executive with government experience, as the director of a new federal agency aimed at driving biomedical innovation, the White House...

Most people who die from monkeypox are Africans. There are two different strains of the disease, a more lethal one circulating in the Democratic Republic of Congo and neighboring countries, and a...

Kurt Gottfried, a theoretical physicist who barely escaped the brutal reality of one world war and devoted his career to preventing another, died on Aug. 25 in Ithaca, N.Y. He was 93.His...

Then, having insisted he doesn’t yet know what the last book will be since it’s not done, he hurries on: It’s about “the end of life, the extension of life, metabolism, what...

Although an Augustóbriga aqueduct, paved roads and thermal baths were sacrificed to the dam, a second-century A.D. temple, known as Los Mármoles (the Marbles), was dismantled stone by stone and reassembled on...

Failure to limit global warming to the targets set by international accords will most likely set off several climate “tipping points,” a team of scientists said on Thursday, with irreversible effects including...

In December 1988, two Department of Transportation workers in north Georgia found a young woman’s body on Interstate 59 in Dade County, about five miles from the Alabama state line. The woman...

GEORGETOWN, Calif. — Waves of fire swept through the Sierra Nevada forest, churning up smoke and leaving charred vegetation behind — all under the watchful eye of a heavy-duty drone. Instruments around...