Science

People who can’t stop scratching itches may finally have a culprit to blame. In mice (and probably people), a protein…

Editor’s note: This story contains light spoilers for Project Hail Mary. I have long puzzled over something in Andy Weir’s…

The Antarctic Peninsula is an early warning system for the southernmost continent when it comes to climate change. And the…

Over 600 million years ago, most of Earth completely froze over, becoming “Snowball Earth.” But even during this frigid period,…

Making high-performance proteins for medicines or consumer products can take trial after trial of tweaks, experiments and fine-tuning. A new…

About 150 million years ago, in a coastal lagoon in what is now southern Germany, the oldest known bird gobbled…

These days, many people can skip the dreaded Pap smear in favor of a far less invasive and more private…

In the 2012 movie The Amazing Spider-Man, a key character regrows his missing arm by imbibing reptilian DNA — but…

Many people find their flattened faces cute, but among dogs bred with a squished visage, 11 percent or less of…

Golden eagles in Nevada are dying at an alarming rate, and no one can pinpoint the cause. Their carcasses litter…