Science

In 2025, more than 3,800 research grants from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation were terminated…

Megan Murray has been in limbo. The Harvard University epidemiologist and infectious diseases doctor has grants from the U.S. National…

Overtaking a throne sometimes takes a touch of matricide.  Some newly mated ant queens sneak into other ant colonies and spray…

A roughly 12,000-year-old clay figurine unearthed in northern Israel has unveiled a surprisingly ancient turning point in storytelling and artistic…

One damp spring evening last year, a wolf hauled a crab trap ashore off the central Pacific coast of British…

Located just a few hours’ drive from the Canadian border, Missoula, Mont. is not known for sweltering temperatures. And yet…

A new cholesterol-lowering pill made a big difference for people with an inherited cholesterol disorder, a clinical trial has found.…

Wishing for an extra hour in the day is a common refrain throughout the industrialized world. And every fall, in…

Mining the seafloor for valuable metals could send dangerous ripples through ocean food webs. Tiny floating plankton, the base of…

When one supernova commenced, it looked like an olive — at least before it got shaken and stirred. This insight,…