Science

A sewer line collapse in Maryland earlier this year spilled more than 360 Olympic-sized swimming pools’ worth of wastewater into…

Neptune’s moon Nereid may be the sole survivor of an ancient moonpocalypse. A new study suggests that the strange satellite…

One of Earth’s most vital ocean currents is rapidly weakening in response to global warming. Its collapse could send devastating…

At 19, Tucker Francis was living his dream. About a decade earlier, he had sailed around the northwest Atlantic with…

An AI-powered monitoring system could save the lives of gray whales that are increasingly taking a deadly detour into California’s…

Global warming will expand the tiny Antarctic plant community. But it could also foster pathogenic fungi in soils that might…

Archaeologists have discovered the remains of at least 37 people in a large stone “jar” in northern Laos. The oldest…

In shallow seas near Australia, a familiar, trunked face emerges from billowing tufts of red algae. The fish it belongs…

Abortion restrictions are affecting the care people receive for miscarriages, a new study suggests. The same medications and procedures that…

The iconic sideways walk of crabs may have evolved just once, in an ancestor that roamed Earth roughly 200 million…