Science

Penny Pritzker and Ashton Carter, two former Obama Cabinet members, were named to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, the White House announced Wednesday. The two are...

On the day that SpaceX’s first space tourists launched, Elon Musk was there at Kennedy Space Center in Florida to see them off, cheering as the private astronauts walked to...

An influential panel of advisers to the Centers for the Disease Control and Prevention convened on Wednesday to debate which Americans should get COVID-19 booster shots and when — a...

This article contains spoilers for The Terror and The North Water. Of all the horrors of a 19th-century European voyage to the Arctic—noses and cheeks turned necrotic by frostbite, snow...

A Florida woman courageously rescued her pet dog from an alligator attack near Boca Raton last month, according to a report.  Suzan Marciano, 74, was walking her dog Nalu near a...

BEIRUT — Coronavirus cases are surging to the worst levels of the pandemic in a rebel stronghold in Syria — a particularly devastating development in a region where scores of...

The two biggest economies and largest carbon polluters in the world announced separate financial attacks on climate change Tuesday. Chinese President Xi Jinping said his country will no longer fund...

Space, we have an equity problem. When three billionaires rocketed into space this summer, they did more than escape Earth’s surly bonds, they helped spread “a malady of mistrust” plaguing...

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is betting on millions more rapid, at-home tests to help curb the latest deadly wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, which is overloading hospitals and threatening...

When President Joe Biden announced last month that the U.S. would offer a third vaccine dose to Americans who had already received two doses of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines,...