Science & Space

Male Arctic ground squirrels go through puberty every year. As if that wasn't difficult enough, the females now also have...

Robert J. Zimmer, a mathematician who, as president of the University of Chicago, championed diversity, not only quantitatively, in the...

At first it looks like a slightly hairier rodent. But the spiny mouse's body is full of secrets. Found in...

They can strengthen coastlines, break the force of raging waves, shelter fish, crustaceans and migratory birds, purify the water, store...

In the 1997 movie "Contact," Jodie Foster plays an astronomer, Ellie Arroway, who detects an alien radio signal from space....

Biden administration officials worked Tuesday to keep funding clear for key components of the federal response to the coronavirus in...

If a multi-day blackout in Phoenix coincides with a heat wave, nearly half of the population would need emergency care...

Some 252 million years ago it was a disastrous time to be alive. Erupting supervolcanoes destabilized ecosystems, plunged the planet's...

The Biden administration has negotiated a hard-fought agreement between California, Arizona and Nevada to draw less water from the drought-stricken...

When Jace Tunnell saw what looked like a leg on the shoreline of the Gulf of Mexico in Texas, he...