Science

A common eastern bumblebee gathering nectarNature Picture Library/Alamy In the first study of its kind, scientists have discovered...

An artist’s rendering of the spacewalk on the Polaris Dawn missionSpaceX SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission is a leap...

A new kind of weather forecast could tell us beforehand whether extreme events, like the 2018 Hurricane Florence,...

Jared Isaacman looks out of the Dragon capsule’s hatchSpaceX SpaceX made history today as its private astronauts conducted...

This Juno image from February (right) reveals a new volcano that wasn’t there in a Galileo image from...

Five satellites due to launch this week could be brighter than most stars, and astronomers fear the growth...

Medical clowns can help children through their treatmentsFatCamera/Getty Images Children and teenagers with pneumonia seem to spend less...

Studying how to make batteries last longerJacqueline Orrell/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory A simple change in how new lithium-ion...

Bands of fast-moving wind that blow west to east around the globe play a crucial role in weather...

Smaller pterosaurs may have flapped their wings while larger ones soaredTerryl Whitlatch Despite living hundreds of millions of...