What if one of the most famous and formidable Antarctic exploration vessels in history, whose crew’s story of shipwreck and survival has been told for more than a century, wasn’t as strong as legend ...

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi will share the prize. Their structures can “capture carbon dioxide, store toxic gases or catalyse chemical reactions,” the committee said.

Pumpkins are a harvest symbol and part of our nostalgia for a simpler time. But while the word “pumpkin” has been around for centuries, the plant dates back thousands of years.

BEIJING — About 900 hikers, guides and other staff who were stranded by a weekend snowstorm on the Chinese side of Mount Everest have reached safety, state media said late Tuesday. A severe storm ...

It’s been two years since Hamas-led militants attacked Israel, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages. In response, Israeli leaders promised a punishing offensive. Here are some ...

Travelers across the U.S. are beginning to feel the impacts of the government shutdown, as air traffic control staffing shortages disrupt flights across the country. A dozen Federal Aviation ...

This year’s short list features novelists Rabih Alameddine and Megha Majumdar as well as five first-time nominees for nonfiction, including journalists Omar El Akkad and Julia Ioffe.

Babies may soon join soldiers in the fight to ward off malaria. For years, the U.S. military has treated uniforms with insecticide to repel mosquitoes and the malaria they can transmit. Ross Boyce ...

The academic choices you make as a teenager can shape the rest of your life: If you take high school classes for college credit, you’re more likely to go to college; and if you take at least 12 ...

In addition to Pynchon’s Shadow Ticket, this week’s releases include a new memoir from Dopesick author Beth Macy, and a coming-of-age story from former U.S. poet laureate Joy Harjo.

Some federal workers support the government shutdown, even as President Trump threatens to use this moment to lay off employees and cut funding to programs.

STOCKHOLM — John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis won the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for research into quantum mechanical tunneling. Clarke conducted his research at the ...