Sharks have long been thought to be mute, relying on stealth to hunt their prey and avoid predators. But now, sharks have been recorded making sounds for the very first time. The new recordings reveal ...

Stuart and Susan Levine show off copies of their new annotated version of Edgar Allan Poe's Eureka, which lays out Poe's thoughts on science and how the universe began. One of Poe’s major ...

Life on Earth had to begin somewhere, and scientists think that “somewhere” is LUCA—or the Last Universal Common Ancestor.

Everyone benefits from science. I will not stand idly by while the Trump administration destroys the scientific foundation ...

The universal language of science allows nations to reach a mutual understanding of shared problems. But that requires politicians not to meddle in how science is done.

All energy, life and thought will be sucked from the cosmos ... Katrina Miller is a science reporter for The Times based in Chicago. She earned a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago.