Science

A never-before-seen meteor shower may light up the skies with untold numbers of brilliant streaks the evening of Monday night into Tuesday morning.Or the event could fizzle out and be a dud.Those...

It’s time for New Yorkers to get very excited about the setting sun.That’s because Manhattanhenge is upon us. It can produce, when the weather cooperates, four of the most striking sunsets of...

MDMA-assisted treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder “represents real hope for long-term healing,” health experts say.

Tests also differ in their sensitivity, and people differ in how they perform them. “Some people do a swab test and it’s like they barely touch their nose,” Dr. Gordon said. “Whereas...

Paleontologists have long wrangled with the question of dinosaur metabolisms — whether they ran hot, like modern birds and mammals do, or resembled the slower metabolisms of modern reptiles. In a surprise,...

Before Tom Cruise signed on to star in the original “Top Gun,” he asked to take a test flight in a jet. Cruise wasn’t yet world famous, so when he arrived at...

Some voters think the list could make a difference in the elections.“Most of the scientific community is definitely antiwar,” said Alexander Nozik, a physicist at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology...

“As to how this will affect the population, it’s really complicated,” said Dr. Wada-Katsumata.That’s because, despite the hang-ups, glucose-averse cockroaches still find ways to do the deed.In lab experiments, Dr. Wada-Katsumata and...

Flying salamanders? Well, not quite, but there is a species called the wandering salamander that lives in the tallest trees on earth, and can do a very convincing imitation of flight, parachuting...

In the early 1930s, archaeologists in Pompeii made a remarkable discovery: the skeleton of a man who died during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. Unearthed in the Casa del...