Science

Flesh-eating, hooked-mouth maggots have wriggled their way back into the United States. As of June 21, 15 cases of New World screwworm have been…

There’s no such thing as Thing, the disembodied hand that loyally skitters around the fictional Addams Family in the popular…

New fossil evidence is overturning a long-held assumption about how vertebrates first transitioned from water to land. The hatchlings of…

Not long after a powerful earthquake rocked Japan, the whole country moved a few millimeters east. The cause, researchers report…

Citations J.M. Nagata et al. Prospective associations between early adolescent problematic screen use, mental health, sleep, and substance use. American Journal of…

The oldest-known traces of plague, around 5,500 years old, have been discovered in hunter-gatherer burials in Siberia. Found at one…

WASHINGTON — Microbiologists are used to looking at gross pictures and hearing scary statistics. So when a moderator of a…

El Niño is here. And buckle up for a bumpy ride, scientists say: By the end of 2026, this might…

When something goes wrong in the brain of people with dementia, often it’s more than one thing. But it can…

A common houseplant hides a pattern that may reveal how some leaf veins form. The leaves of the Chinese money…