By BENEDICT CAREY
The broader significance of the report is that societies collectively forget according to the same formula as, say, a student who has studied a list of words.
Published: November 27, 2014 at 07:00PM
By C. CLAIBORNE RAY
Fish that have white flesh are generally those that are resting or mostly inactive throughout their lives, while red-fleshed fish are usually long-distance swimmers.
Published: November 24, 2014 at 07:00PM
By JASCHA HOFFMAN
An auditory scientist plans to help a New York audience make the most of some very minimal music and human sexual behavior is the focus of a yearlong show at London’s museum of medicine and art.
Published: November 24, 2014 at 07:00PM
By SABRINA TAVERNISE
Recommending the toughest federal alert would have signaled to doctors that the risks of use outweighed any potential therapeutic benefit for patients.
Published: November 25, 2014 at 07:00PM
By CARL ZIMMER
Scientists are dusting off old insect collections in museums in an effort to learn what has happened to bee populations.
Published: November 24, 2014 at 07:00PM
By EDWARD FRENKEL
To say Alexander Grothendieck was the No. 1 mathematician of the second half of the 20th century cannot begin to do justice to him or his body of work.
Published: November 24, 2014 at 07:00PM
By DOUGLAS QUENQUA
Tiny, jelly-clad crustaceans known as Holopedium are thriving in some Canadian lakes after years of acid rain, threatening the food chain and “jellifying” the waters, biologists say.
Published: November 24, 2014 at 07:00PM
By HENRY FOUNTAIN
A doctor who is considered a pioneer in the field of regenerative medicine has denied carrying out innovative operations without ethical approvals.
Published: November 24, 2014 at 07:00PM
By ABIGAIL ZUGER, M.D.
Does a girl who enters adolescence with a big woman’s body have a harder time socially than most teenagers? How about a boy whose fat conjures up female stereotypes?
Published: November 24, 2014 at 07:00PM
By JAMES GORMAN
The lizard and, well, Spider-Man, have ideal tools for scaling slippery surfaces. Engineers have copied the gecko’s clingy foot pads.
Published: November 23, 2014 at 07:00PM
By JOHN MARKOFF
More than 100 years after it was found, and more than 2,000 years after it was believed to have been built, the Antikythera Mechanism continues to raise questions and provide answers.
Published: November 24, 2014 at 07:00PM
By KENNETH CHANG
After having a Scotch years ago, a photographer saw beauty at the bottom. Then he got interested in the science behind the patterns.
Published: November 24, 2014 at 07:00PM
By RICHARD MORIN
A quick-grow laboratory technique, called microfragmenting, may make it possible to mass-produce reef-building corals for transplanting onto dead or dying reefs that took centuries to develop.
Published: November 24, 2014 at 07:00PM
By DOUGLAS QUENQUA
A study of ancient life on the Tibetan Plateau indicates it was the ability to grow barley that allowed humans to establish permanent settlements at very high altitudes.
Published: November 19, 2014 at 07:00PM
By RONI CARYN RABIN
The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved a long-acting opioid painkiller that contains pure hydrocodone, which some addiction experts fear will be abused.
Published: November 20, 2014 at 07:00PM
By Unknown Author
The creator of Kryptos, a sculpture that contains an 865-character encrypted message, has released a second clue for the final unsolved section.
Published: November 20, 2014 at 07:00PM
By JAMES GORMAN
New maps document seasonal migrations of elk, moose, bighorn sheep, pronghorn antelope and mule deer in Wyoming.
Published: November 18, 2014 at 07:00PM
