Science

The viruses we know best are the ones that make us sick — the influenza viruses that send us to bed and the smallpox viruses that may send us to the grave.But...

The Trump administration fired about 1,300 additional employees at the Interior Department over the holiday weekend, according to two people familiar with the matter, adding to the widespread purge of thousands of...

Pope Francis, who remains hospitalized, has bilateral pneumonia, the Vatican said on Tuesday.The term simply means pneumonia in both lungs, said Dr. James Musser, director of the center for infectious diseases at...

Astronomers on Tuesday said that the asteroid designated 2024 YR4 had become the most likely sizable space rock ever forecast to impact planet Earth. The object, first detected in December, is 130...

Numerous programs aimed at averting violence, instability and extremism worsened by global warming are ensnared in the effort to dismantle the main American aid agency, U.S.A.I.D.One such project helped communities manage water...

Scientists have long struggled to understand how human language evolved. Words and sentences don’t leave fossils behind for paleontologists to dig up.A genetic study published on Tuesday offers an important new clue....

At the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, millions of people in poor nations died literally gasping for breath, even in hospitals. What they lacked was medical oxygen, which is in short supply...

Louis Pasteur was at his most comfortable when working in his Paris laboratory. It was there that he had some of his greatest scientific triumphs, including experiments that helped confirm germs can...

At the annual gathering in Boston this past week of one of America’s oldest scientific societies, the discussions touched on threats to humankind: runaway artificial intelligence, toxic “forever chemicals,” the eventual end...

Soon, Irene Mekel will need to pick the day she dies.She’s not in any hurry: She quite likes her life, in a trim, airy house in Castricum, a Dutch village by the...