SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

Paul Safarik, 32, of Lincoln, Nebraska, has worked in the food industry since he was 21, delivering for quick service restaurants like Raising Cane's and stocking groceries at stores like Trader Joe's. With his earnings,...

Kilmer S. McCully, a pathologist at Harvard Medical School in the 1960s and ’70s whose colleagues banished him to the basement for insisting — correctly, it turned out — that homocysteine, an amino acid, was being overlooked as a...

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After delivering more than 8,200 pounds of supplies, scientific investigations, commercial products, hardware, and other cargo to the orbiting laboratory for NASA and its international partners, Northrop Grumman’s uncrewed Cygnus spacecraft is scheduled to depart the International Space Station...

A bizarre ancient organism previously thought to be a giant fungus may actually belong to an undiscovered branch of...

The three bundled up figures, puny against the vastness of miles of snow, trudged toward a hole they had cut into the ice.Their sled was parked nearby, and the woolly dogs that pulled it were huddled on the frozen...

Lately, my brain has felt decidedly ancient. I’m only in my 40s, but last week I completely blanked on...

Malcolm Prior and Jenny KumahBBC News rural affairs teamGetty ImagesAlex Stone, chief executive of the Forest of Avon Trust, which leads the partnership behind the Western Forest project, said there were some areas in the region that currently had...

It’s looking more and more as if dark energy, the mysterious factor that scientists say is behind the accelerating expansion of the universe, isn’t as constant as they once thought. The latest findings from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument,...

Smitha MundasadHealth reporter, BBC NewsGetty ImagesRepeated failures in how CTs, X-rays and other medical scans are being interpreted are leading to avoidable patient deaths and delays in diagnosing cancer, England's health ombudsman has warned. The most common problems include...