Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton’s crew famously survived after the Endurance became stuck in ice in 1915. A researcher ...

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 ...

About 900 hikers, guides and other staff who were stranded by a weekend snowstorm on the Chinese side of Mount Everest have ...

It’s been two years since Hamas-led militants attacked Israel, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages. In response ...

A dozen facilities saw air traffic control shortages on Monday, delaying flights at several airports. Transportation ...

This year’s short list features novelists Rabih Alameddine and Megha Majumdar as well as five first-time nominees for ...

Inspired by a military strategy to ward off disease-carrying mosquitoes, researchers see if the technique will help cut ...

The federal government has long surveyed high schoolers to help track how their academic choices may have influenced the ...

In addition to Pynchon’s Shadow Ticket, this week’s releases include a new memoir from Dopesick author Beth Macy, and a ...

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

The Nobel committee said that the laureates’ work provides opportunities to develop “the next generation of quantum ...