Ocean acidification occurs when the ocean absorbs excess carbon dioxide, causing its pH to drop. This makes it harder for ...

The research hospital cares for people with rare or life-threatening diseases. This year, patient numbers plummeted.

The accidental release of fluoxetine in a aquarium filled with clams gave bivalve husbandry an unexpected new tool.

As the weather agency struggles to maintain forecasting, startups are launching more tech to gather critical data.

In 2009, the agency concluded climate change endangers humans and the environment. Now, Lee Zeldin plans to reverse course.

In an era of open data, genome-wide association studies have become entangled with efforts to prove Black inferiority.

The foreskin-removal procedure raises tricky questions about medicine, consent, bodily autonomy, and sexual pleasure.

By a quirk of geography, the Orkney islands, located off the northern tip of Scotland, are unusually well positioned to bear witness to the ocean’s might. On the archipelago’s western shores, waves ...

Victor Wembanyama (pronounced wem-ben-YAH-muh), was selected first in last June’s NBA draft at the age of 19. By then, he had played four years of professional basketball in his native France. With a ...

In late May, after months of debate, the Los Angeles City Council approved the donation of a four-legged, doglike robot to the nation’s third-largest police department. The approval was granted at a ...

Lawmakers are poised to decide the fate of a massive project to protect the coast around Houston from rising sea levels.

Evolution is a work in progress, so it’s hardly surprising that some of the features it has built into the human body are still far from optimal. And of all those features, one of the hardest to ...