Science News

11:37 PM on Tuesday, May 19

Emergency services say eastern Turkey has been struck by a magnitude 5.6 earthquake

4:01 PM on Tuesday, May 19

Two humpback whales have made record-breaking crossings between Australia and Brazil

5:24 AM on Tuesday, May 19

5:03 AM on Tuesday, May 19

A biotech company that aims to resurrect lost creatures says it has hatched live chicks in an artificial environment

4:54 AM on Tuesday, May 19

Animal welfare groups in South Africa are taking a zoo to court over the mental well-being of three elephants

2:52 PM on Monday, May 18

President Donald Trump blasted the accuracy of scientists' global warming projections in a social media post that itself painted a distorted view of the science, projections and policy of climate change

4:38 AM on Monday, May 18

Pope Leo XIV and Anthropic's co-founder Christopher Olah are set to launch the pontiff’s first encyclical on May 25

4:24 PM on Sunday, May 17

A group of people watches three albino rats leap from small baskets into a big cage at an indoor hall in the Argentine capital

9:07 AM on Saturday, May 16

France’s Pasteur Institute has fully sequenced the Andes virus found in a French passenger from the MV Hondius cruise ship

7:33 AM on Saturday, May 16

Authorities say a humpback whale found dead this week off a Danish island has been identified as the animal released two weeks ago in a spectacular and contentious rescue effort

10:12 PM on Thursday, May 14

An investigation by the animal welfare group Four Paws reveals systemic neglect at Romania’s publicly funded shelters for stray dogs

5:45 AM on Thursday, May 14

5:10 AM on Thursday, May 14

A NASA spacecraft chasing a rare metal asteroid is swinging past Mars for a gravity boost

9:02 PM on Wednesday, May 13

The U.S. Postal Service is releasing special edition stamps featuring the bald eagle for America's 250th birthday

3:02 PM on Wednesday, May 13

An oncologist traveling on the cruise ship at the center of a hantavirus outbreak has been cleared to leave a special biocontainment unit in Nebraska, where he was the lone American placed in isolation after he helped care for fellow passengers who became sick on board

12:56 PM on Wednesday, May 13

Chronic wasting disease has been discovered in the National Elk Refuge in Wyoming

11:58 AM on Wednesday, May 13

The giant machines that will bore a train tunnel beneath the Hudson River connecting Manhattan to New Jersey are being assembled

8:30 AM on Wednesday, May 13

Two bald eagle hatchlings have been spotted in a Chicago park in what experts believe is a first for the Windy City in more than a century

8:01 AM on Wednesday, May 13

An analysis of ancient teeth is giving scientists a rare peek into interactions between human relatives hundreds of thousands of years ago

5:49 AM on Wednesday, May 13