Science

Bright flecks of burning wood stream through the smoky air and toward a hapless house. Before the one-story structure, the…

Tens of thousands of preschool-aged children in the Gaza Strip haven’t had nearly enough to eat, putting their young lives…

Many science fiction and fantasy stories are enveloped in a warm glow, and it’s not just because of nostalgia. Some…

A telltale hint was on the bee’s knees. An analysis of 127 fossil flowers, flower buds and bees from central…

Newly discovered African fossils lend a hand to suspicions that an ancient hominid outside our own genus, Homo, made and…

Chicago’s viral ‘Rat Hole’ is less rat splat, more squirrel squish. Researchers determined it was probably a squirrel that left…

The Water RemembersAmy Bowers CordalisLittle Brown & Co., $30In September 2002, an estimated 34,000 to 78,000 adult Chinook salmon died…

Earth has entered a grim new climate reality. The planet has officially passed its first climate tipping point. Relentlessly rising…

Taste and smell are so intimately connected that a whiff of well-loved foods evokes their taste without any conscious effort.…

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