June 4, 2019, 6:00am Life
For months beginning in October 2016, carcasses of tufted puffins turned up one after another on the shores of St. Paul Island, a tiny Alaskan outpost in the southern Bering Sea. Read story
May 31, 2019, 6:00am Life
Apollo 11’s astronauts were in the midst of a tight, grueling training schedule in May 1969. Just one slip-up could delay their July launch and derail the goal of landing on the moon before the end of the 1960s. But in addition to learning how to control the command service… Read story
May 31, 2019, 6:00am Life
Whale researchers in New England believe they’ve found a new way to measure the amount of stress felt by whales when they experience traumas such as entanglements in fishing gear, and they say the technique could help protect the massive sea creatures from extinction. Read story
May 28, 2019, 6:05am Life
Cabot’s 500 pounds of churning white flesh sped though North Carolina waters last week, part of a group traversing shipwrecks, seeking bounties of fish. Read story
May 28, 2019, 6:02am Life
Apes … well, ape. Read story
May 24, 2019, 8:49am Life
SpaceX has launched 60 little satellites, the first of thousands that founder Elon Musk plans to put in orbit for global internet coverage. Read story
May 24, 2019, 6:05am Life
At first glance, it looks like a branch of kelp, but then an eye moves among its leafy appendages, and ridges of tiny, translucent fins start to flutter, sending the creature gliding through the water like something from a fairy tale. Read story
May 21, 2019, 6:00am Life
Taking the hours-long journey to what is believed to be the deepest point mankind has visited in any ocean was a complicated one, and for Victor Vescovo, it meant being constantly on the alert as he monitored his state-of-the-art vessel. Read story
May 21, 2019, 6:00am Life
viruses that kill bacteria — have been used for the first time to treat a patient struggling with a dangerous, persistent superbug infection. Read story
May 21, 2019, 6:00am Life
Two Hawaiian crows, or alala, have done something momentous in the struggle to save the critically endangered species. Read story
