Science

A worsening measles outbreak has taken root in Texas, sickening two dozen and hospitalizing nine on the western edge of the state, where childhood vaccination rates have dwindled in recent years.As of...

The warnings, on thousands of products sold in California, are stark.“Use of the following products,” one label says, “will expose you to chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer,...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spent the first day of his back-to-back confirmation hearings deftly avoiding questions about his views on vaccines. On the second day, when a prominent Republican senator insisted there...

Strange things live in the depths of the ocean.Even the light of the sun cannot penetrate the inky blackness below. The pressure of the water above is crushing. And yet life somehow...

Deep in the waters of the Mediterranean Sea, physicists have uncovered evidence of a ghostly subatomic particle catapulting through space at a speed they once could only dream of.“What we have discovered...

Elaborate poses, tufts of feathers, flamboyant shuffles along an immaculate forest floor — male birds-of-paradise have many ways to woo a potential mate.But now, by examining prepared specimens at the American Museum...

Helen Hays, an intrepid ornithologist who for nearly 50 years led scores of volunteers to Great Gull Island, a postage-stamp islet in Long Island Sound, where they endured dive-bombing birds and fierce...

The inner core at the center of the Earth, a ball of iron and nickel about 1,500 miles wide, may not be perfectly solid.A new study finds evidence that the inner core’s...

In less than three weeks, President Trump has thrown the U.S. clean energy industry into chaos, with much of the economic damage hitting Republican states and districts.In a quest to eliminate any...

The draft was almost ready for submission, due in less than a month. More than 150 scientists and other experts had collectively spent thousands of hours working on the report, a first-of-its-kind...