Science

Since the James Webb Space Telescope began operating two years ago, astronomers have been using it to leapfrog one another millions of years into the past, back toward the moment they call...

It can take generic makers years to get ready to produce a drug, and they need to have a sense of the potential market in order to commit to investing in production....

If you’ve ever had trouble getting a prescription drug, chances are you’ve run into a pharmacy benefit manager.These companies, known as P.B.M.s, play a crucial but often hidden role in deciding which...

What’s driving ominous declines in insects?While a growing body of research shows decreases in many insect populations, it has been hard for scientists to disentangle the possible causes. Are insects suffering from...

Two vans loaded with precision instruments trundled along the streets of New York and New Jersey in the heat earlier this week, sniffing for toxic chemicals in the air.They detected spikes in...

Poll workers. Pilgrims. Tourists on a hike.All have died in blistering heat in recent weeks around the world, a harrowing reminder of the global dangers of extreme weather as a heat wave...

Deep in the woods in Northern Virginia last month, two human bodies were carried to a remote spot among the trees and left to decompose. As nature takes its course, the bodies...

A flounder looks like a hallucination of a fish. Its body is flat as a pancake, its head permanently tilted to one side, and instead of having one eye on each side...

They’re a familiar sight in Amazon packages: The plastic air pillows designed to keep products safe in transit, but that also end up in landfills by the billions.Now, under pressure from environmentalists...

George M. Woodwell, the founder of the Woods Hole Research Center in Massachusetts and a renowned ecologist whose keen research and understanding of policy shaped how the United States controlled toxic substances...