Science News

9:09 AM on Monday, August 18

A series of panels convened by the Food and Drug Administration is raising concerns that the agency is skirting federal rules and promoting fringe views about antidepressants and other products

8:46 AM on Monday, August 18

9:01 AM on Sunday, August 17

Coastal communities nationwide are ramping up efforts to restore and protect their shorelines as climate change causes more intense and destructive storms and leads to sea-level rise that puts tens of millions of people at risk

2:03 PM on Friday, August 15

Federal officials say Arizona, Nevada and Mexico must again live with less Colorado River water as drought lingers in the West

2:01 PM on Friday, August 15

New research finds early human ancestors during the Stone Age were more picky about the rocks they used for making tools than previously thought

11:21 AM on Friday, August 15

A deer hunter has discovered a rare subtropical wood stork in the wilds of Wisconsin

9:17 AM on Friday, August 15

7:06 AM on Friday, August 15

The human ancestor fossil known as Lucy has left Ethiopia for display in a European museum

11:48 PM on Thursday, August 14

Paleontologists have identified a new whale species from a 25-million-year-old fossil found on an Australian beach

4:13 PM on Thursday, August 14

An Oregon university says Nike co-founder Phil Knight and his wife Penny Knight have pledged a record $2 billion to its cancer center

3:44 PM on Thursday, August 14

Florida wildlife officials have given preliminary approval to a plan to reopen Apalachicola Bay for oyster harvesting, five years after the waters were closed due to dwindling shellfish populations

9:26 AM on Thursday, August 14

Republican lawmakers are blaming Canada for not preventing and containing wildfires, whose smoke has fouled the air in several states this year

9:12 AM on Thursday, August 14

Six planets are hanging out in the sky this month

8:29 AM on Thursday, August 14

6:24 PM on Wednesday, August 13

Some cottontail rabbits in Fort Collins, Colorado, have been drawing attention because they have wart-like growths on their faces that look like horns

3:49 PM on Wednesday, August 13

A new study warns that rising sea levels could threaten Easter Island’s iconic moai statues by the end of the century

10:15 AM on Wednesday, August 13

9:02 AM on Wednesday, August 13

It turns out many Americans misjudge which personal behaviors contribute most to climate change

8:48 AM on Wednesday, August 13

9:04 PM on Tuesday, August 12

Spain is turning to farms and foreign fisheries to meet the demand for octopus as local stocks dwindle