A nursing rhesus macaque monkey with its mother.
A new study of infant monkeys demonstrates that a hormone present in a mother’s milk can have profound effects on how her offspring develops.
When the New Horizons probe passes the former planet next year, it may look familiar: Neptune’s moon Triton, scrutinized 25 years ago by Voyager 2, is probably a long-lost brother of Pluto.
The skull fossil is from a newly discovered extinct species, Vintana, similar to groundhogs, that lived in the time of the dinosaurs, and is only the third mammal fossil found in the Southern Hemisphere.
How much power can one Yoda output? What happens if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? There’s a book with the answers.
After a fall, life is upended in an instant — a sudden loss of independence, an awkward reliance on family and friends, and a new level of fear for those who fall, and their contemporaries.
Experts who have studied falls wish that people would take measures to protect themselves much as they do against heart disease or viral infections.
Throughout the 1950s and into the ’60s, canine cosmonauts were plucked from the streets and alleys of Moscow, trained at the Institute of Aviation Medicine, then vaulted toward the heavens in satellites.
A group of researchers has found a way to study the delicate and complex brain of a jumping spider.
Eye specialists are offering young patients a contentious remedy to nearsightedness: contact lenses that temporarily flatten the cornea overnight and correct vision for the next day.
Bill Nye
Bill Nye, well known as a televised educator and sometimes firebrand for science, follows a very public debate for evolution against creationism with a new book on the divide.
The Virginia launching pad from which an Antares rocket bound for the space station took off last week. It exploded about 15 seconds later.
The Orbital Sciences Corporation said that a preliminary analysis pointed to a failure of a turbopump for the Oct. 28 fireball in Virginia.
The oil industry and fracking opponents split eight races, three in California, four in Ohio and one in Texas.
A year after the University of California said it would phase out funding for its Lick Observatory, the university said it had changed its mind.
Iran has tentatively agreed to ship much of its huge stockpile of uranium to Russia if it reaches a broader nuclear deal with the West.
Failure to reduce emissions could threaten society with food shortages, refugee crises, major flooding and mass extinctions, the group of scientists and other experts found.
Scientists blew up more than half a ton of uranium in 2,000 explosions at a fort only 14 miles from the Eiffel Tower. Now there is disagreement over whether the site should be redeveloped.
American health care workers and members of the United States Public Health Service who will work at a new hospital were briefed upon arrival in Liberia.
A dedicated Ebola field hospital for health workers is scheduled to open Friday in Monrovia, Liberia, as part of an effort to ease the worries of would-be volunteers.
After surviving the Ebola virus in August, Nancy Writebol, a 59-year-old missionary, donated blood plasma to Craig Spencer, the patient in New York.
María Teresa Romero Ramos, 44, was found to be infected with the virus after treating a Spanish missionary who had returned from West Africa with the disease.
A White House official said most of the emergency funding would be for immediate response efforts.
Randall Munroe, a former NASA roboticist who achieved viral fame with his website xkcd.com, has a new book called “What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions.”
What If You Had a Hypothetical Question That Needed Answering?
In his new book, “Undeniable,” the veteran television science showman Bill Nye talks about chicken knees, the importance of understanding evolution in an increasingly technologically based society and why he thinks creationists are preoccupied with death.
Bill Nye on the Science of Creation The top three of the 100 most highly cited scientific papers are biochemical techniques for quantifying the amount of protein in a solution.
Most plants have both male and female organs, but not the permission tree. Now researchers have figured out what causes an individual to be either male or female.
All human genes get three-to-five-letter symbols for easier reference, though they may seem abstract.
Penguin chicks hand-raised by researchers and released back into the wild survived at about the same rate as wild penguins, says a new study from the University of Cape Town.
New studies show that the effects of marijuana on young people may be greater than we thought.
Animal arms races always unfold in the same way. But those with the biggest weapons don’t always win.
When sea ice melts and polar bears meet snow geese on their nests, the effects of climate change get complicated.
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