Biologist Héctor Ramírez-Chaves from the University of Caldas discovers Coendou vossi, a new porcupine species hidden for decades in Colombia's Magdalena Valley forests.

The New Yorker at 100 touches on the editors, beginning with Ross (1925-1951), William Shawn (1952-1987), Robert A. Gottlieb (1987-1992), Tina Brown (1992-1998), and David Remnick (1998-present). It ...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has revealed stunning cosmic structures within galaxy clusters, like bubbles and waves, formed by superheated gas and ...

“Redheads are not going extinct,” says Katerina Zorina-Lichtenwalter, a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Behavioral ...

A wax head of Elon Musk is seen on a robot dog as a part of an art installation called "Regular Animals" by digital artist ...

Tucked away just west of Cody, Buffalo Bill State Park sits like a well-kept secret among Wyoming’s outdoor treasures, quietly offering spectacular scenery without making a fuss about it.

A new study suggests that having just one spoon of black cumin seed powder a day may help improve cholesterol levels.

During oral arguments, the conservative justices made clear that they intend to allow Trump to fire FTC commissioner Rebecca ...

Lindberg had Parkinson’s disease, the neurologist said, with all the classic symptoms. PD—as the scientists she would meet ...

For centuries, Europeans thought that eternal daylight saturated the cosmos. The shift to a dark universe has had a profound ...

Winter mixes danger with legend on haunted North Carolina roads where ghost lights, vanishing hitchhikers, and eerie ...

This list exemplifies the hard work in science over this past year, not simply in the lab but where it matters.