Science

Is your face a glazed doughnut or a dewy dumpling? I don’t mean which of these foods are stuck on…

When the United States faced the looming threat of World War II in the 1930s, it bet big on science — and…

New scientific findings come out every day. Often, people only learn about the researchers behind some of these discoveries years…

About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into Earth and the planet suddenly went dark. The impact and its…

This time of year, “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” is a nearly inescapable earworm. Rudolph, the old song goes, is bullied…

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

The thunderous roar of the MGM lion that has opened Hollywood films for nearly a century has conditioned us to…

Our staff’s favorite books of the year pondered science’s role in some of society’s most pressing issues, from AI to…

SAN DIEGO — A diet low in the amino acid glutamate may ease migraines, a small study suggests. A month…

In an extraordinary display of biological resilience, moss spores survived for nine months outside the International Space Station. The spores…