Science

Naked mole-rats — with their subterranean societies made up of a single breeding pair and an army of workers...

About 24 million years ago, baby shark ancestors of the giant beast called megalodon needed a place to grow big before...

TerraPower’s Natrium reactor would use molten sodium to cool its core (blue). Molten salt circulating from (red) and to...

 A new test of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity has proved the iconic physicist right again — this...

Treatment and vaccine trials are halted, the US forges ahead with its decentralized response, and new revelations about American...

After watching a parent succumb to the deleterious effects of Alzheimer's disease, it's only natural to wonder if you...

Remdesivir, an antiviral drug that was the first found to combat COVID-19, doesn’t reduce deaths from the disease, a...

Animal models are unavoidable, if unfortunate, necessities in modern research. In light of our ethical regards towards fuzzy, feathering,...

By Jeffrey MervisOct. 16, 2020 , 9:00 AM Her opponent calls her a “radical professor.” But Nancy Goroff says...

It looks like humanity just dodged a pretty big space-junk bullet.Two large pieces of orbital debris — a defunct Soviet...