Science

If it seems like plastic surrounds nearly every cucumber, apple and pepper in the produce aisle, it does.What began with cellophane in the 1930s picked up speed with the rise of plastic...

Blocking solar rays. Sucking carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Ideas that sound like science fiction are now starting to become reality, raising concerns about safety.

The phone awakened Doug Nordman at 3 a.m. A surgeon was calling from a hospital in Grand Junction, Colo., where Mr. Nordman’s father had arrived at the emergency room, incoherent and in...

The show “3 Body Problem” premiered on March 21 and quickly became one of Netflix’s most-watched titles. It is an adventure story about a group of scientists contending with an extraterrestrial threat....

It is rare for a total solar eclipse to hit the same place twice — once every 366 years on average. In 2019, this happened in the Pacific Ocean, far west of...

An unlikely friendship between a poor fisherman and a majestic bird that first visited his rowboat 13 years ago has captivated Turkey for years.The stork — nicknamed Yaren, or “companion,” in Turkish...

On April 8, a total solar eclipse will blot out the sun for roughly 4,200 miles stretching from Mexico to Canada — a cosmic show that so much of North America won’t...

The United States and China are locked in a new race, in space and on Earth, over a fundamental resource: time itself.And the United States is losing.Global positioning satellites serve as clocks...

How do champion skaters accomplish their extraordinary jumps and spins? Brain science is uncovering clues.By Pam BelluckPam Belluck is a neuroscience reporter and figure skating fan.March 27, 2024The recent World Figure Skating...

When the sky darkens during next month’s solar eclipse, electricity production in some parts of the country will drop so sharply that it could theoretically leave tens of millions of homes in...