In “Kobuk the Destroyer,” a bear finds an unlikely job using the destructive flair that took him out of the wild to begin ...

In the name of safety, test engineers turn pill bottles over to kids, launch dead chickens through jet engines, and let bears loose on coolers.

CRISPR pioneer Jennifer Doudna on the evolution of gene-editing technology, her own path, and what it takes to be a good scientist.

In the new movie “Whalefall,” a scuba diver has a very bad day in the guts of a sperm whale. Could it actually happen?

A free-floating seaweed called sargassum is exploding in the Atlantic Ocean, clogging up coastlines from West Africa to the ...

A linguist weighs in on how "politician speak" has changed over the past century, and what it says about what we want from ...

For Ada Lovelace Day, our 2018 story about the women who made the internet, with the author of "Broad Band" and the founder ...

The latest on commercial space stations, Japan's mission to bring a sample from a Martian moon, and space-based weapons.

Two experts at the forefront of untangling the gut-brain connection explain its role in IBS, Parkinson’s, and depression. Plus, writer Craig Childs biked from the brightest sky to the darkest in our ...

A new mRNA flu vaccine promises a closer match to circulating flu strains. But dysfunction at federal health agencies is ...