SCIENCE

University of Oregon researchers found that C. elegan worms swarm to high-calorie foods when exposed to a cannabinoid molecule.

After years of careful management of harvests to allow for spawning, Virginia officials expect the largest commercial harvest of oysters in 30 years.

Scientists fastened neoprene caps wired with sensors to seals' heads and discovered that they catch 20-minute catnaps underwater when foraging for food.

Mostafa Hassanalian, an engineering professor at a New Mexico college, is using drone technology to enable taxidermied birds to fly.

A peregrine falcon has been spotted on a ledge blocks from the White House.

The idea of enlisting children armed with air rifles in an effort to kill feral cats in New Zealand set off alarm bells among animal rights groups.

Murphy, a 31-year-old bald eagle at a Missouri sanctuary, started incubating a rock last month. In early April, he bonded with a living, breathing chick.

Their habitats destroyed, the endangered Eastern tiger salamander is found only on private land east of Interstate 95. Experts are working to bring them back.

The scrub was announced minutes before the launch of what would be the world's most powerful rocket.

The mycologists argues that their field’s nomenclature guidelines make it seem as though thousands of recently discovered types of fungi simply don’t exist.

The Swiss-born researcher received the National Medal of Science for identifying the viroid, the tiniest known agent of infectious disease.

The image can help theorists better understand the physics of black holes, while the technology used to create it can be applied to other types of research.

A journey into the wild world of high-risk virus hunting, a coming reckoning, and The Post’s year-long investigation into the U.S. role in pushing such research to the edge.

Researchers used surveys and camera traps to track whether freshwater turtles in North America, the Caribbean, Europe, Asia, Africa, the Seychelles and Australia engaged in the behavior.

The jagged region sits at the boundary between liquid core and solid mantle, and it might be the remnants of ancient seafloor

The covid-19 epidemic has challenged conventional thinking about biosafety, leading a growing number of scientists to reconsider the danger of prospecting for unknown viruses and other research with pathogens.

For thousands of years, kimchi was fermented in earthenware vessels called “onggi.” Now, a pair of mechanical engineers have unraveled why.

A species called the yellow crazy ant lives up to its name, with a mode of reproduction “unknown to science” until now, according to a new study in the journal Science.