Science

A decommissioned Russian satellite fractured in space on Wednesday, creating a cloud of debris in low Earth orbit that prompted astronauts aboard the International Space Station to take protective measures.The satellite, which...

This article is part of our Pets special section on scientists’ growing interest in our animal companions.Many students begin veterinary school with career aspirations that date back to childhood, when they fell...

Hundreds of millions of years ago, trilobites could be found all over the Earth. Cloaked in tough exoskeletons, the animals left behind countless fossils to be studied by paleontologists today. Despite all...

Last year, the Supreme Court sharply restricted the federal government’s ability to limit pollution in small streams that sit dry for much of the year and fill up only after rainfall or...

The hard-fought settlement of thousands of lawsuits against Purdue Pharma was close to capsizing on Thursday, after the Supreme Court rejected liability protections for the company’s owners. The ruling effectively prevents the...

This week, two asteroids — one big enough to destroy a city, and the other so large it could end civilization — are set to fly near our planet.Don’t panic.Both have a...

This article is part of our Pets special section on scientists’ growing interest in our animal companions.Dingoes are muscular, graceful canids with pricked ears, bushy tails and teeth so pointy they look...

In an unusual move, federal health officials revised their recommendations for who should receive the vaccine against the respiratory syncytial virus.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended last year that adults...

For decades, a deadly fungal disease has been stalking the world’s amphibians, wiping out frogs, toads and salamanders from the mountain lakes of the United States to the rainforests of Australia. The...

This article is part of our Pets special section on scientists’ growing interest in our animal companions.Over the last two decades, a flurry of scientific studies have demonstrated, over and over again,...