Science

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,...

Health officials in the Biden administration pressed an international group of medical experts to remove age limits for adolescent surgeries from guidelines for care of transgender minors, according to newly unsealed court...

In May, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued a watch for a possible solar storm. A gigantic cluster of spots on the sun was flaring and expelling material headed straight toward...

China brought a capsule full of lunar soil from the far side of the moon down to Earth on Tuesday, achieving the latest success in an ambitious schedule to explore the moon...

Eventually, through many years of research, Boston and other scientists revealed that the microbes in Lechuguilla do much more than spit out a little dirt. Lechuguilla is ensconced in thick layers of...