Science

Shakima Tozay was 37 years old and six months pregnant when a nurse, checking the fetal heart rate of the baby boy she was carrying, referred to him as “a hoodlum.”Ms. Tozay,...

Some 75.3 million years ago, a dinosaur swallowed the Cretaceous equivalent of a turkey drumstick. It would turn out to be the predator’s final feast.Within days of eating that haunch, the dinosaur...

Why do we grow old and die?In the 19th century, the German biologist August Weismann argued that the machinery of life inevitably wore out with time. Death had evolved “for the need...

Inside a fishbowl, the goldfish — a species of carp native to East Asia, bred for aesthetic delight and traditionally believed to bring good fortune — is hardly more than home décor....

On Friday, the Food and Drug Administration approved the first gene editing therapy ever to be used in humans, for sickle cell disease, a debilitating blood disorder caused by a single mutated...

It’s massive. It’s icy. And it’s moving.It’s an iceberg named A23a. Wait, that’s what they’re calling it? Come on, we can do better.It’s Superberg!For more than 100 years, no iceberg has been...

As the calendar tiptoes toward winter and water temperatures in parts of the Atlantic Ocean drop, dozens of cold-stunned sea turtles that washed ashore in Massachusetts in critical condition have been flown...

The U.S. Department of Energy is creating three research hubs in the hopes of harnessing miniature laser-driven thermonuclear explosions for future power plants, officials announced on Thursday.The three hubs — based at...

Heavy rain and floods in East Africa that started in October have killed at least 300 people and displaced millions more. Locations in Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya, including the giant Dadaab refugee...

Early one morning in February, a guard clanged on the door of David Mustiga’s jail cell on Rikers Island. Soon, the 43-year-old was shackled and put on a bus to Bellevue.Rikers detainees...