Science

Hello darkness, our old friend, we’ve come to stare at you again.At the center of Messier 87, a giant galaxy 55 million light-years from Earth, is a darkness 24 billion miles across...

An investigation into nearly 1,700 aquifers across more than 40 countries found that groundwater levels in almost half have fallen since 2000. Only about 7 percent of the aquifers surveyed had groundwater...

Color is in the eye of the beholderEnter animal-vision videoHow a bird sees a rainbowHow a mouse sees a rainbowHow a bird sees a butterflyHow a honeybee sees a caterpillarExploring the world...

When a thresher shark attacks, it doesn’t lunge in teeth-first. Instead, it approaches a school of fish, lowers its head, flexes its body and thwaps its whiplike tail over its head. The...

In 2014, nine blue whales died after being trapped by ice near Newfoundland, Canada. Two of their carcasses washed ashore and began bloating as they decomposed, causing worries of an imminent explosion...

The Food and Drug Administration is requiring companies that make specialized cancer therapies known as CAR-T to add a boxed warning that the treatments themselves may cause cancers.The agency noted that the...

Arno A. Penzias, whose astronomical probes yielded incontrovertible evidence of a dynamic, evolving universe with a clear point of origin, confirming what became known as the Big Bang theory, died on Monday...

North Korea fired hundreds of artillery shells in waters near South Korean border islands on Jan. 5. Last week, it said it no longer regarded the South as inhabited by “fellow countrymen”...

Last Thanksgiving, Cynthia Mosson had been on her feet all day in her kitchen in Frankfort, Ind., preparing dinner for nine. She was nearly finished — the ham in the oven, the...

As a group of European botanists prepared to travel across Borneo by motorboat and four-wheel-drive vehicles, they heard about a species of palm with an extremely rare quirk.It flowers underground.The palm, Pinanga...