Science

TAIPEI, Taiwan — The sweeping “zero-tolerance” strategy that China has used to keep COVID-19 case numbers low and its economy functioning may, paradoxically, make it harder for the country to...

NEW YORK — Three studies released Friday offered more evidence that COVID-19 vaccines are standing up to the omicron variant, at least among people who received booster shots. They are...

Acts can speak louder than words and wrapping your arms around another is one of life’s great pleasures. As a result, this tactile expression of love and support is allocated...

A man was found dead in his Maryland home this week with more than 100 venomous and non-venomous snakes, authorities said.  The man, whose name was not immediately released, was...

On Thursday, members of Congress debated how to make cryptocurrencies greener, as energy-intensive bitcoin mining booms in the US. One of the biggest questions was whether to use renewables to...

Elon Musk’s brain-machine interface company Neuralink has a new job posting for a clinical trial director, a position that could help the company move towards its stated goal of testing...

Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink is now hiring a clinical trial director, an indication that the company’s longstanding goal of implanting chips in human brains is coming closer. The trial director position...

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department dropped its case Thursday against a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor charged last year with concealing research ties to the Chinese government, saying it could...

NEW YORK — From the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the top U.S. public health agency has been criticized as too slow to collect and act on new information. Now,...

Mountain lions are crucial to the balance of ecosystems in the U.S. and across the Americas, according to a study looking at the impact of these predators on the landscape....