SCIENCE

The finds took place during two expeditions devoted to exploring an underwater mountain that’s home to an octopus nursery.

Pet dog Ruby helped officer Kammeron Bennetts rescue her Traverse City owner, who had fallen into a freezing Arbutus Lake in East Bay Township, Michigan police said.

Social scientists say polarization is increasingly based on a visceral dislike for the opposition rather than extremely divergent policy preferences.

Teamwork makes the dream work: Dung beetles are more effective at moving balls of fecal matter they use for breeding when they pair up, researchers found.

The British surgeon introduced new drugs and techniques for organ transplantation, earning one of medicine’s top honors and giving hope to millions of patients.

The system allows nurses to diagnose children at risk for rheumatic heart disease when they can still be treated with penicillin, potentially saving thousands

Volunteers will help researchers classify gammy ray bursts’ pulses and shapes, contributing to future research on the huge explosions.

Lexington, Ky., beamed a travel advertisement into space to the distant star of TRAPPIST-1, inviting aliens to visit the Bluegrass State.

A new study in the journal Science found the number of sharks killed by fishing is still going up despite government efforts to save the ocean predators

The remarkably rare find will help scientists understand how the ancestors of many of today’s terrestrial animals adapted to life on land.

The finding answers a long-standing conundrum about multiple sclerosis and recasts the modern-day illness, suggesting it is rooted in an evolutionary trade-off.

While the dime-size prototype is not ready for prime time, the feat demonstrates the potential of new technologies to revolutionize materials science.

“To do it every night is unbelievable,” Rodney Holbook said of “Welsh Tidy Mouse,” who may be as obsessed with cleaning as Disney’s Remy is with cooking in Ratatouille.

The work involved just three patients, but it raises hope about the long-term potential of the treatment strategy known as focused ultrasound.

A 19th-century book helped crack the code in cryptic notes found in a dress bought at a Maine antique mall.

After her son got Lyme, a scientist and her students collected ticks in western Maryland: 40 percent tested positive for the bacteria that causes the disease.

Elephants at Berlin’s Tierpark Zoo enjoy munching on unsold Christmas trees, in what has become an annual event.

The 8-month-old black-footed cat, a Utah zoo’s new resident, is part of an effort to conserve the species, the deadliest and among the smallest of the world’s cats.