Sciences

Anna Ornstein, Psychoanalyst Who Survived the Holocaust...

Despite the unspeakable horror of her youth, she embraced a school of psychother...

How Parasitic Cowbirds With No Parents Learns What Spec...

Cowbird mothers abandon their eggs in the nests of other bird species, but the c...

Third Interstellar Object, Comet 3I/ATLAS, Is Traveling...

3I/ATLAS, earlier known as A11pI3Z, is only the third interstellar visitor to be...

Third Interstellar Object Enters the Solar System

A11pI3Z is only the third interstellar visitor to be discovered, and astronomers...

Sea Spiders Lack a Key Body Part and a Missing Gene Cou...

Scientists have long sought to understand why sea spiders keep some of their mos...

Lucian Leape, Whose Work Spurred Patient Safety in Medi...

Despite resistance from the medical establishment, he found systemic ways to red...

With Etch a Sketches and Apples, Math Is Revealed

A new series for the Health and Science section aims to make complex topics easy...

A Common Assumption About Aging May Be Wrong, Study Sug...

Experts have long pointed to inflammation as a natural part of getting older. Bu...

Mike Lee’s Plan to Sell Public Lands Faces MAGA Pushback

They love hunting, fishing and conservatism. And they hate a plan by a conservat...

Maybe It’s Not Just Aging. Maybe It’s Anemia.

Significant numbers of older people have the condition. Many find relief with an...

Israel and U.S. Smashed Iran Nuclear Site That Grew Aft...

Nuclear experts say the president’s rejection of the restrictive deal forced him...

Stars Passing Near the Sun Could Cause Planets to Colli...

Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Ea...

Max Fink, Champion of Electroconvulsive Therapy, Dies a...

As a psychiatry resident, he became convinced of the benefits of ECT. But he spe...

Critical Hurricane Monitoring Data Is Going Offline

The loss of access to the data could hamstring forecasters’ ability to track hur...

Orcas Use Kelp as a Possible Grooming Tool

In a new sign of toolmaking in marine mammals, orcas in the Pacific Northwest we...

RFK Jr.’s New Advisers Rescind Recommendations for Some...

Critics saw in the move the beginnings of a more restrictive approach to providi...

Debris From SpaceX Explosion, Landing in Mexico, Draws ...

Mexican environmental activists say detritus raining down from Elon Musk’s rocke...

Global Warming Is Speeding Up and the World Is Feeling ...

Human-caused global warming has been increasing faster and faster since the 1970s.

How Two Neuroscientists View Optical Illusions

The Best Illusion of the Year contest offers researchers, and participants, an o...

Here’s Another Use for Ice: Creating Secret Codes

Scientists have devised a way of writing and storing messages by creating patter...

Fred Espenak, Astrophysicist Known as Mr. Eclipse, Dies...

He chased eclipses for five decades, wrote several books about them and worked w...

N.I.H. Memo Pauses Cancellations of Medical Research Gr...

The directive, in a memo issued Tuesday, came after two court rulings that quest...

Did Baby Talk Give Rise to Language?

The way that human adults talk to young children is unique among primates, a new...

Scientists Retrace 30,000-Year-Old Ocean Voyage, in a H...

Japanese researchers turned to “experimental archaeology” to study how ancient h...

RFK Jr.’s Handpicked Vaccine Advisers Are Set to Meet f...

The panelists will review measles vaccine recommendations and discuss a preserva...

This Reviled Pest Is the Unsung Hero of Every Major Cit...

The European wood pigeon helped me appreciate its omnipresent city cousins.

Vera Rubin Observatory Reveals Telescope’s First Images...

Scenes of nebulas in the Milky Way, a cluster of galaxies and thousands of new a...

Vera Rubin Telescope Quickly Found 1,200 New Asteroids

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to find millions of unknown objects in...

Vera Rubin Scientists Reveal Telescope’s First Images

Scenes from nebulas in the Milky Way and a cluster of galaxies are a teaser of h...

‘Jaws’ at 50: Scientists Are Still Studying the Mysteri...

The film’s release in 1975 haunted the reputation of sharks worldwide. But a gen...

People With Severe Diabetes Are Cured in Small Trial of...

Most in a small group of patients receiving a stem cell-based infusion no longer...

Banning Plastic Bags Works to Limit Shoreline Litter, S...

Using crowdsourced data from shore cleanups, researchers found that areas that e...

Psych 101: What Is Tapping?

Proponents say that manually stimulating acupressure points can ease a variety o...

SpaceX Starship Explodes During Test in Texas

The Starship experienced a “major anomaly” before starting its 10th flight test....

Vera Rubin Observatory Brings Universe’s Darkest Myster...

As the Vera C. Rubin Observatory surveys the night sky, astrophysicists expect t...

Scientific Study Shows Bogong Moths Use Sky For Migration

A new study suggests that these Australian insects may be the first invertebrate...

Why a Vaccine Expert Left the C.D.C.: ‘Americans Are Go...

Dr. Fiona Havers is influential among researchers who study immunizations. The w...

Octopuses’ 8 Arms Snoop on Microbiomes

Scientists discovered that octopuses use their limbs to sample the microbiomes o...

Octopuses’ 8 Arms Snoop on the Microbial World

Scientists discovered that octopuses use their limbs to sample the microbiomes o...

Sotheby’s to Auction a Ceratosaurus, With Millions and ...

The 150-million-year-old specimen is valued at up to $6 million. Some paleontolo...

Early Humans Settled in Cities. Bedbugs Followed Them.

A new study suggests that bedbugs were the first urban pest, and their populatio...

Norma Swenson, ‘Our Bodies, Ourselves’ Co-Author, Dies ...

She was a proponent of natural childbirth when she joined the group that produce...

Many Older People Embrace Vaccines. Research Is Proving...

Newer formulations are even more effective at preventing illnesses that commonly...

Radiation Risk From Israel’s Strikes on Iran Nuclear Si...

The radiological threat from the targets of the earliest attacks are relatively ...

Study Shows Mercury Levels in Arctic Wildlife Could Ris...

Even as global emissions plateau, new research shows that wildlife in the Arctic...

How a Purge at One Obscure Panel Could Disrupt Vaccinat...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, dismissed 17 scientific advisers to...

Amanda Feilding, Countess Who Drilled a Hole in Her Hea...

She was ridiculed for drilling a hole in her skull to increase blood flow, but h...

Shining a Light on the World of Microproteins

From viruses to humans, life makes microproteins that have evaded discovery unti...

Soaring Temperatures Threaten Crops, So Scientists Are ...

Genetically altering crops may be key to helping them adapt to extreme temperatu...

Each Person Has a Unique ‘Breath Print,’ Scientists Find

Every breath you take, they really may be watching you.