SCIENCE

Scientists studying a Colombian family plagued by early-in-life Alzheimer's have found a rare gene variant that seems to delay initial symptoms by about five years.

With their bulging red eyes and their alien-like mating sound, periodical cicadas can seem scary and weird enough.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering removing the Nashville crayfish from the endangered species list, but some biologists argue it still needs protection because its range is so limited.

Summer kicks off in the Northern Hemisphere with the summer solstice on Thursday.

Much of the Midwest and the Northeast is broiling — or set to broil — in extreme summer heat this week.

Unanswered questions linger a year after the implosion of the Titan submersible during its deep-sea voyage to the wreckage of the Titanic.

The deadly implosion of an experimental submersible en route to the deep-sea grave of the Titanic last June has not dulled the desire for ocean exploration.

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is sending science data again.

Scientists are trying to determine why bird flu kills some animals quickly but leads to mild illnesses in others.

What stands out during a cicada invasion is the sound.

Photos of a white bison calf in Yellowstone National Park have generated excitement as well as questions: How does that happen.

It's a popular notion that men eat more meat than women.

The strong El Nino weather condition that added a bit of extra heat to already record warm global temperatures is gone.

The wreck of the last ship belonging to a famous Irish-born British explorer of Antarctica has been found off the coast of Canada by an international team led by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.

A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has cracked walls and caused other minor damage in a fishing community in southwestern South Korea.

New research shows space tourists experience some of the same body changes as astronauts who spend months in orbit.

Bill Gates and his energy company are starting construction at their Wyoming site for a next-generation nuclear power plant he believes will “revolutionize” how power is generated.

Scientists have traced the ancestry of the modern horse to a lineage that emerged 4,200 years ago and quickly became dominant across Eurasia.

SpaceX's mega Starship rocket has blasted off on its fourth test flight.

Boeing's space capsule has sprung more helium leaks as it closes in on the International Space Station.

Month after month, global temperatures are breaking records.

Boeing has finally launched NASA astronauts to the International Space Station after years of stumbles and delays.

The Japanese government data shows the country's birth rate fell to a new low for the eight straight year in 2023.

Greece’s culture minister says the comments made by a Turkish official at a UNESCO meeting last week, casting doubt on the existence of proof long cited by Britain that it had legally acquired the Parthenon Marbles, have bolstered Athens' stand in the dispute.

U.N. Secretary General António Guterres has called for a “windfall” tax on profits of fossil fuel companies to help pay for the fight against global warming.

When faced with infertility, Christians who believe life begins at or around conception must wrestle with weighty questions: How do you build a family in a way that conforms with your beliefs.

Boeing is gearing up again for its first astronaut launch.

A 59-year-old Russian cosmonaut has become the first person to spend 1,000 days in space.

The Hubble Space Telescope has temporarily stopped observing the cosmos.

China says a spacecraft carrying rock and soil samples from the far side of the moon has lifted off from the lunar surface to start its journey back to Earth.

Two young brothers and their cousin were wandering through a fossil-rich stretch of the North Dakota badlands when they stumbled across a T.

Dr. Anthony Fauci is facing heated questioning from Republican lawmakers about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The popular Blue Lagoon geothermal spa, one of Iceland’s biggest tourist attractions in the country’s southwest, has reopened after authorities said a nearby volcano had stabilized after erupting four days earlier.

Earthquakes have again struck Japan’s north-central region of Ishikawa that is still recovering from the destruction left by a powerful quake on Jan. 1.

Boeing is taking another crack at launching astronauts for the first time aboard its new space capsule, after a delay for leak checks and rocket repairs.

Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa has canceled his planned flight around the moon on a SpaceX vehicle because of uncertainty about when it may be possible.

Boeing is taking another crack at launching astronauts for the first time aboard its new space capsule, after a delay for leak checks and rocket repairs.

The bird flu outbreak in U.S. dairy cows is prompting development of new, next-generation mRNA vaccines — akin to the shots deployed during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Scientists have found the genetic root of a disorder that causes intellectual disability, which they estimate affects as many as one in 20,000 young people.

Lava continues to spurt from a volcano in southwestern Iceland but the activity has calmed significantly from when it erupted.

Thanks to heavy use of nitrogen fertilizer, tiny organisms that flourish in farm fields emit nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas that can warm the planet more than carbon dioxide and stay in the atmosphere for over a century.

Six planets will line up in the early morning sky on June 3, but most won't be visible to the naked eye.

A volcano in southwestern Iceland is erupting, spewing red streams of lava in its latest display of nature’s power.

Twice per year, New Yorkers and visitors are treated to a phenomenon known as Manhattanhenge, when the setting sun aligns with the Manhattan street grid and sinks below the horizon framed in a canyon of skyscrapers.

Bird flu has been detected in beef for the first time, but the U.S. Department of Agriculture says the meat from a single sickened dairy cow was not allowed to enter the nation's food supply and beef remains safe to eat.

Boeing is now aiming for its first astronaut launch at the beginning of June.

Boeing has called off its first astronaut launch because of a fluttering rocket valve.

The best time to view the moon is at night on Wednesday and Thursday.

Researchers climbed the world’s largest tree to inspect for bark beetles and descended the giant sequoia with good news this week.

A European space telescope is thrilling scientists with its latest peek at stars and galaxies.

Get ready for what nearly all the experts think will be one of the busiest Atlantic hurricane seasons on record thanks to unprecedented ocean heat and a brewing La Nina.

New research indicates the sun's magnetic field originates much closer to the surface than previously thought.

A new study tracks how cockroaches spread around the globe to become the survival experts we know today.

Ed Dwight, America's first Black astronaut candidate, has finally made it to space 60 years later, flying with Jeff Bezos’ rocket company.

Botanists and citizen scientists armed with the iNaturalist app on their smartphones are recording the biodiversity along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Federal wildlife officials have declared a rare lizard in southeastern New Mexico and West Texas an endangered species.

Scientists say temperatures that have gone “crazy haywire” hot, especially in the Atlantic, are close to making the current global coral bleaching event the worst in history.

The Webb Space Telescope has discovered the earliest known merger of black holes.

A new study suggests that the first warm-blooded dinosaurs may have roamed Earth about 180 million years ago.

The sun isn't done yet.

Sizzling heat across Asia and the Middle East in late April that echoed last year’s destructive swelter was made 45 times more likely in some parts of the continent because of human-caused climate change, a study Tuesday found.

Astronomers say a planet that's bigger than Jupiter is surprisingly as fluffy and light as cotton candy.

Astronomers have discovered what they believe is the biggest known batch of planet-making ingredients in the cosmos.

The U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Justice host an event commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision.

A new study finds that the broiling summer of 2023 was the hottest in the Northern Hemisphere in more than 2,000 years.

Smoke from Canadian wildfires has prompted health warnings across the Upper Midwest for a second straight year.

The first recipient of a genetically modified pig kidney transplant has died nearly two months after he underwent the procedure.

A U.S. government agency said a weaker repeat of Saturday's powerful solar storm is likely on Sunday.

An unusually strong solar storm hitting Earth produced stunning displays of color in the skies across the Northern Hemisphere, with no immediate reports of disruptions to power and communications.

The announcement of Sweetgreen salad chain that it’s adding beef to its menu led to strong reactions online, with customers questioning the company’s carbon neutral plans.

Florida's largest power company is preparing for this year's hurricane season by pretending a major storm already hit.

Florida's largest power company is preparing for this year's hurricane season by pretending a major storm already hit.

Two men who were instrumental in creating a global seed vault designed to safeguard the world’s agricultural diversity will be honored as the 2024 World Food Prize laureates.

Japan’s Fisheries Agency has proposed expanding commercial whaling to fin whales, a larger species than the three allowed now.

A thick atmosphere has been detected around a planet that's twice as big as Earth in a nearby solar system.

Boeing's first astronaut launch is off until late next week to replace a bad valve in the rocket.

Scientists studying the sperm whales that live around the Caribbean island of Dominica have described for the first time the basic elements of how they might be talking to each other, in an effort that could one day help better protect them.

Russia has defended its veto of a U.N. resolution calling on all nations to prevent a nuclear arms race in outer space.

House Republicans are moving forward with holding Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress.

For the first time, researchers have identified a genetic form of late-in-life Alzheimer's disease.

Boeing has called off its first astronaut launch because of a fluttering rocket valve.

A top Florida public school attributes its students’ high test scores to the creativity its teachers are allowed in the classroom.

Boeing is finally poised to launch astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA after years of delays and stumbles.

The Eta Aquarid meteor shower peaks this weekend.

A U.K. High Court judge has ruled that the government acted unlawfully when it approved a plan to meet climate targets without evidence it could be delivered.

China has launched a lunar probe to land on the far side of the moon and return with samples that could provide insights into differences between the less-explored region and the better-known near side.

Researchers say an orangutan appeared to treat a wound with medicine from a tropical plant.

Russia has circulated a U.N. resolution calling on all countries to take urgent action to prevent putting weapons in outer space “for all time” a week after it vetoed a U.S.-Japan resolution to stop an arms race in space.

It was a Texas veterinarian who collected samples from dairy farms that confirmed the outbreak of H5N1 bird flu in cattle for the first time.

The first scientist to publish a sequence of the COVID-19 virus in China says he has been allowed back into his lab after days of protest.

Indonesia’s Mount Ruang volcano has erupted for a second time in two weeks, spewing ash more than a mile into the sky, closing an airport and peppering nearby villages with debris.

NASA’s Webb Space Telescope has revealed the sharpest images yet of a portion of a horse-shaped nebula.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a Morbidity and Mortality Report last week that documented the first instances of HIV transmissions contracted through unsterile injections used while receiving “vampire facials,” cosmetic procedures involving microneedling.

Japan’s space agency says it's planning to launch a major upgrade to its satellite imaging system, as a new flagship rocket is put to the test for a third time.

A lab in a Dutch zoo has presented special corals that bred themselves and nestled them in Europe's largest coral reef.

The two NASA astronauts assigned to Boeing's first human spaceflight have arrived in Florida for their May launch.

A new report says circumstantial evidence points to climate change as worsening the deadly deluge that flooded Dubai and surroundings.

China launched a three-member crew to its orbiting space station as part of its ambitious program that aims to put astronauts on the moon by 2030.

A New Jersey woman who was near death has received a transplanted pig kidney, part of a dramatic pair of surgeries that also stabilized her failing heart.

China’s space agency is making final preparations to send a new crew to its space station on Thursday as part of its ambitious program that aims to put people on the moon by 2030.