And it all began with a hobbyist ?messing about and experimenting with shapes.?

Evolution has saved roach reproduction from an earlier mutation that interfered with how males court females.

Brazilian researchers captured on camera the brief moment when lightning rods on buildings released an upward discharge to attract incoming lightning.

Some researchers claim that chatbots have developed theory of mind. But is that just our own theory of mind gone wild?

While live bees can be used as a deterrent to keep elephants away from farms, a new technology fills in for cases where a buzz without the sting is preferable.

Forty-one bent or twisted iron nails, unearthed from a second-century imperial burial site, were meant to keep the deceased in their place.

Scientists have retracted a study that showed a rare goblin shark washed up on a Greek beach after other researchers voiced doubts about the find.

A pair of images, taken eight years apart, show changes to the ice giant planet as spring arrives in the northern hemisphere.

By analyzing seven samples of hair said to have come from Ludwig van Beethoven, researchers debunked myths about the revered composer while raising new questions about his life and death.

The Food and Drug Administration is expected this week to allow the overdose-reversal medication to be sold without a prescription, a step toward making it a common emergency tool.

Following even basic screenings and operations, patients often must arrange for someone to deliver them home. For older people, it can be a tall order.

A powerful geomagnetic storm helped to make the colorful aurora visible in places like North Carolina and Arizona on Thursday night.

A new study quantified the benefits of pollution reduction in terms of race and class.

The state awarded a $50 million contract to produce less costly treatments, but moves by major suppliers might undercut the initiative before any new product emerges.

Britain and Canada have authorized another round of booster shots for older and immunocompromised citizens. So far, U.S. officials haven?t followed suit.

Nationwide, poor children and adolescents are participating far less in sports and fitness activities than their more affluent peers.

The state plans to use state funds, which a spokeswoman for Gov. Bill Lee said would be more efficient than receiving federal dollars. Some organizations are concerned they will be cut off if they don?t align with his conservative politics.

Duodenoscopes ? tubular cameras threaded into the intestine ? with disposable parts were supposed to be safer. But the parts can fall off in the body, the F.D.A. warned.

Sixteen young Montanans have sued their state, arguing that its support of fossil fuels violates the state Constitution.

Natural history museums have joined forces to produce a global digital inventory of their prized collections, from pinned butterflies to dinosaur skulls.

A new analysis summarizes the emerging picture of factors that make long-term post-Covid symptoms more likely.

The pandemic may have disrupted the detection of autism spectrum disorder in young children, researchers also reported.

El análisis de siete muestras de pelo del venerado compositor permitió a los investigadores desmentir mitos y plantear nuevas preguntas sobre su vida y su muerte.

Relativity Space, a private company with ambitions for sending people to Mars, made it off the launchpad, but the vehicle experienced problems during the second stage of its flight.

Wyoming?s Constitution guarantees a right to make individual health care decisions. The new ban attempts to circumvent that right by declaring that abortion is not health care.

The latest list of approved labels for asteroids includes nods to three more scholars of the order, as well as a pope, challenging the idea that science and religion make awkward partners.

A Senate homeland security committee examined growing health care shortages amid reports of rationing within hospitals.

His work helped break down the chemical structures of THC, the psychoactive compound in marijuana, to figure out how cannabis makes users high.

One of the first people to receive a graduate degree in the field, Dr. Wulf helped to adapt an early Pentagon communications web into the network that eventually grew into the internet.

For decades, new plants have been blocked by powerful local interests, the owners of hot spring resorts, that say the sites threaten a centuries-old tradition.

As local data sources become less reliable, The Times will instead report information collected by the C.D.C. on its virus tracking pages.

Astronomers offer ?a surprisingly simple explanation? for the curious behavior of the interstellar visitor in 2017.

The honor, like a Nobel Prize for mathematics, was given this year to Luis Caffarelli for his work on partial differential equations.

It was the latest instance of marine mammals being found dead on the state?s beaches, raising concerns among residents over what might be the cause.

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