Science

We may not be living through Earth’s sixth mass extinction event ­­— at least not yet. That’s the conclusion of…

Venice’s famous bronze statue of a winged lion, which stands atop a pedestal in St. Mark’s Square, took an intercontinental…

Scientists have gotten their closest-ever view of the denizens that inhabit a frigid underworld.  An analysis of the genetic blueprints…

McKenzie Prillaman is a science and health journalist based in Washington, DC. She holds a bachelor’s degree in neuroscience from…

An antidote for carbon monoxide poisoning could come from bacteria. Mice treated with a tweaked version of a bacterial protein…

A recent bout of the common cold may be a defense against a COVID-19 infection. A study that included the…

Two key gene variants may have made early domesticated horses more tame and more physically resilient to bearing a rider,…

Toxic pollutants from a Southern California river are infiltrating the air. Polluted water surging along a turbulent section of the…

In late August 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated the U.S. Gulf Coast. The storm cut a deadly swath through Louisiana, Mississippi…

A sugar present on virus envelopes might become the target of new antiviral treatments for a range of viruses, researchers report…