Science

If you’ve felt your eyes welling up when your dog greets you with licking and tail-wagging after a long day away, the feeling may be mutual.Dogs produce more tears when reunited with...

When Lee Weiss, 31, sees a spotted lanternfly — an invasive pest so voracious that it is the target of several officially-sanctioned smash-on-sight campaigns — he acts swiftly.He scoops each crimson creature...

Then there’s the Kitchen. Its official name is the nonvolley zone, a seven-foot strip in front of the net on both sides. (An official pickleball court is 44 feet long and 20...

A team of scientists has found a cheap, effective way to destroy so-called forever chemicals, a group of compounds that pose a global threat to human health.The chemicals — known as PFAS,...

For decades, scientists have pursued a tantalizing possibility for bolstering food supplies and easing hunger for the world’s poorest: improving photosynthesis, the biological process in plants that sustains nearly all life on...

The wreck of the first U.S. Navy destroyer lost to enemy action has been found off the coast of southwest England, 105 years after it was sunk by a German submarine.A team...

Michelle Tynan, 32, texted her mother a question last week that had never crossed her mind before: Had she received the polio vaccine?“Yes you did!” her mother wrote back, sending a picture...

In response to dwindling supplies of water from the drought-ravaged Colorado River, the federal government on Tuesday announced a new round of cuts in the amount two states can take from the...

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has led to global soul-searching about overreliance on Russian oil and gas, but a new drama is unfolding over another of Russia’s major exports: diamonds.Russia is the world’s...

Roughly 5,000 doses of monkeypox vaccine intended for Fort Lauderdale, Fla., left the national stockpile’s warehouse in Olive Branch, Miss., on July 19. They somehow ended up in Oklahoma.Then Tennessee. Then Mississippi...