Science

The big news about the sun is that there isn't big news. We are blessed, astronomers like to say, to live next to a “boring star”.But the inhabitants (if any) of the planets orbiting the neighboring star Proxima Centauri, which is only 4.2…

The 100 geodesic domes of the Svalbard Satellite Station are located on a plateau on an island in the high Norwegian Arctic and look like abstract mushrooms sprouting from the snowy landscape.From the outside there seems to be little going…

Alexis Devine said that she knew early on that Bunny, her sheepadoodle puppy, was destined to talk.A 40-year-old artist and jewelry designer in Tacoma, Wash., Ms. Devine had pored over literature on canine cognition, communication and…

With renewed attention to the origins of the coronavirus, experts and officials on Sunday called on China to create more transparency and investigate more quickly whether the devastating pandemic began with a leak from a laboratory."There…

KATHMANDU, Nepal — Ram Singh Karki escaped the first wave of India’s pandemic by boarding a crowded bus and crossing the border home to Nepal. Months later, as the rate of new infections fell, he returned to his job at a printing press in…

If you like to look at trees and bark and the pattern of veins in the leaves; if you are fascinated by clouds or specks on a ladybug's back; If you love to split open rocks and see what's inside, you are already an outdoor scientist.…

A nun, an environmental lawyer, pension fund executives, and the world’s largest asset manager. These were among the unusual collection of rebels who claimed a series of startling victories this week against some of the world’s biggest and…

For two days each spring and summer, the sunset aligns with Manhattan's street bars, creating a beautiful heavenly spectacle. For a brief moment the golden rays of the sun illuminate the buildings and the traffic of the city with a…

TOTTENHAM, Australia — The stench hits you first, pungent, musty and rotting. Then you hear them: a sound like ocean waves, or pouring rain hitting concrete. And the occasional squeak.The horror lurking in the darkness is a throng of…

The German company CureVac announced on Friday that its vaccine against Covid-19 had passed its first interim analysis but was not yet ready to share data on how well it protects against infections. The shot could be cheaper and more…