By Talya Minsberg Electrolyte drinks, ibuprofen, a bagel overflowing with bacon, egg and cheese — everyone has their own way of nursing a...

By Jim Robbins Hummingbirds zooming around the garden from flower to flower and sipping nectar probably don’t appear at first glance to be models for instruments of war. But the tiny thrumming birds are unparalleled aerial acrobats, power in miniature, instantly zipping forward and backward, diving quickly down and soaring back up, pitching, rolling and yawing, and even flying upside down. Their sophisticated flying abilities have captured the attention of robot designers, es

By Caroline Hopkins Legaspi Americans gobble up more than 46 million turkeys on Thanksgiving, according to some estimates. But experts...

By Franz Lidz Gouged into a barren stretch of pampa in southern Peru, the Nazca Lines are one of archaeology’s most perplexing mysteries. On the floor of the coastal desert, the shallow markings look like simple furrows. But from the air, hundreds of feet up, they morph into trapezoids, spirals and zigzags in some locations, and stylized hummingbirds and spiders in others. There is even a cat with the tail of a fish. Thousands of lines jump cliffs and traverse ravines without

By Emily Schmall There has been a barrage of bad news about food lately. Ten people died after eating Boar’s Head deli meat in a listeria...

By Sheryl Gay Stolberg President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday evening that he had selected Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a Stanford physician...

By Dennis Overbye In a stunning scientific and technological feat, a group of astronomers said last Thursday that it had managed to take the first close-up picture of a star in another galaxy. Not only was the image a distance record for such cosmic intimacy, but the star, bulging like an overripe fruit, looks as if it is getting ready to explode. “For the first time, we have succeeded in taking a zoomed-in image of a dying star in a galaxy outside our own Milky Way,” Keiichi

By Sofia Quaglia It’s amazing what chimpanzees will do for a snack. In Congolese rainforests, the apes have been known to poke a hole into the ground with a stout stick, then grab a long stem and strip it through their teeth, making a brush-like end. Into the hole that lure goes, helping the chimps fish out a meal of termites. How did the chimps figure out this sophisticated foraging technique and others? “It’s difficult to imagine that it can just have appeared out of the bl

By Alyssa Ages The dumbbell is one of the oldest pieces of strength training equipment — and it has endured for good reason. With one...

By Nina Agrawal Heart disease is the leading killer of men and women in America, and it has been for more than 100 years, despite major...