Science

Birds do it. So do bees. Especially bees.But common rats pollinating plants? In a study published in June in the journal Ecology, two researchers report that in Colombia, brown rats, the same...

Health authorities in Britain have declared a national incident after finding evidence suggesting local spread of poliovirus in London.No cases of polio have been identified so far, and the risk to the...

“Ducklings will imprint on anything that moves that’s bigger than a matchbox,” says Antone Martinho-Truswell, who co-founded the Duckling Laboratory at the University of Oxford while getting his doctorate in zoology. Ducks...

Hacía diez años que Linda Collins había atravesado la menopausia, cuando empezó a sangrar de nuevo. Las hemorragias eran leves —manchas ocasionales, en realidad— y apenas les dio importancia.Cuando por fin acudió...

The Food and Drug Administration is planning to require tobacco companies to slash the amount of nicotine in traditional cigarettes to make them less addictive, a move intended to reduce smoking, according...

On its fourth attempt on Monday, NASA mostly completed a practice countdown for the rocket that is to take astronauts to the moon.But agency officials said it was too early to know...

As the days of summer days passgrow longer, so do the antlers get longer onof deer, moose, elk and other animals in the cervid, or deer, family. The animals spend most of...

SEOUL — South Korea said it successfully launched a small but working satellite into orbit using its first homemade rocket on ​Tuesday, bringing the country closer to its dream of becoming a...

Of the many feats Harriet Tubman accomplished, none awe me more as an historian than the estimated 13 trips she made to Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Each time, she stole family and friends...

But the dogs’ small size puts them at a serious disadvantage, and a single 420-pound male lion can easily step in and claim a pack’s fresh catch as his own. Spotted hyenas...