Science

Animal rights group suggested replacing the famous marmot with vegan cake to forecast the end of winter.

US President Donald Trump says that wind farms harm birds and whales. Scientists weigh wind power's impacts on wildlife against those of oil and gas.

At least 29 people were killed in the two fires that scorched thousands of acres and destroyed or damaged more than 18,000 structures.

Some of them seem to be repeat offenders.

Humans always end up with clogged arteries, right? That’s not what the lives of the Tsimane in the Amazon basin tell us.

Unfortunately for lovers of grapefruit, mixing the appealingly bitter citrus with certain medications can lead to dangerous side effects.

Yesterday, health officials in Louisiana announced that a patient who was hospitalized with severe bird flu in December has died. The individual contracted bird flu after exposure to a backyard flock and wild birds.

Researchers have obtained the first conclusive evidence of an elusive third class of magnetism, called altermagnetism. Their findings, published Dec.

The spot’s appearance led to an extraordinarily rare diagnosis and treatment that tested a father’s resilience. The pea-size spot near the tip of his nose seemed so innocuous Ben Murray thought it might have been numb for a while and he simply hadn’t noticed.

When Darwin published On the Origin of Species 166 years ago, there were, naturally, misunderstandings. In an 1860 review, Richard Owen, a leading Victorian scientist, rhetorically asked whether evolution by natural selection continuously operated through time. “Unquestionably not,” Owen wrote.