Visualizations, in progressively greater detail, that show duplications within the human genome.
It began with the genome. Then in an epidemic of neologia came the proteome, the connectome, even the omome.
The gene variant responsible for blondness in dark-skinned indigenous islanders is distinctly different from the gene that causes blond hair in Europeans, researchers report.
Washington State and South Carolina are suing for a decision on a Nevada mountain’s suitability as a repository, even though the proposal has been declared dead.
In recent years, climate change skeptics have seized on one last argument that cannot be so readily dismissed. Their theory is that clouds will save us.
Earth-observing systems operated by the United States have entered a steep decline, imperiling the nation’s monitoring of weather, natural disasters and climate change, a report from the National Research Council warned Wednesday.
In a federal report, both system and human errors occurred, failures that one federal official called “pretty basic things.”
Excited by the discovery of a tetrapod skeleton at a quarry in Teresina, Brazil, paleontologists ponder its classification among amphibians.
Elizabeth S. Spelke studies infants and toddlers to understand how the brain works by determining what, if anything, humans are born knowing.
Painstaking analyses of fossils from the Permian extinction, 252 million years ago, are providing startling new clues to the behavior of modern marine life and its future.
A vast expanse of fossilized trees more than 300 million years old — called a “botanical Pompeii” — could extend as much as 100 miles underneath southern Illinois.
The Simons Foundation plans to announce on Tuesday that the University of California, Berkeley, will be the home of a new center that combines computing theory with fields like biology or economics.
What’s the most surprising species close to home? Readers responded with a variety of wild organisms, large and small.
The United States is similar to developing countries in the percentage of mothers who give birth before their child is due, according to the World Health Organization and other agencies.
Overuse of narcotics and addiction are an issue, but emergency physicians often lack the training and tools to effectively help patients complaining of tooth pain and seeking prescription painkillers.
An analysis of eight people who went into cardiac arrest after receiving shocks from the devices highlights the risks they carry and the importance of using them properly.
Two new books, one by a group of medical ethicists and another by the feminist critic Susan Gubar, offer searing accounts of confronting a lethal disease.
It’s Week 7, and morels, spiders and wild geraniums are this week’s guests in a Staten Island woodland.
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Learning from the very young; a new front in the painkiller wars; and a backyard guide.
The Science Times Podcast 
An early but brief warm spell is not uncommon in spring, an expert says, and most trees are unlikely to suffer long-term damage.
Male bowerbirds, through the extravagant structures they build to woo females, actually cultivate plant life, a study has found.
A study of mating behavior in one species of orb-web spiders, who can mate at most twice in one lifetime, has revealed interesting patterns of male monogamy.
High-resolution images of the Athabasca Valles near the Martian equator reveal coiling spiral patterns that closely resemble lava flows on the Big Island of Hawaii.
Amid success in purging and organizing physical objects, a look at clearing things that can be as burdensome: smartphones and tablets, friends who are an emotional drain.
In a study following 29,000 men over 16 years, those who regularly skipped breakfast had a 21 percent greater risk of developing Type 2 diabetes.
A student journalist explores the career and book of a climate scientist.
Can you cut a 9x3 pan of brownies into eight squares?
Researchers have lately gathered evidence that female friendship is one of nature’s preferred narrative tools.
A series of articles and videos about leaders in science like Richard Dawkins, Nora Volkow, Eric Lander, Michael Gazzaniga and Steven Pinker.
April 26, 2012
Video: Interview With Elizabeth S. Spelke
