It was the 13th test overall of Starship. The success is a boon to NASA’s moon plans and SpaceX’s hopes to deploy a million data centers in orbit.

The agency is considering whether compounding pharmacies should be allowed to produce BPC-157, TB-500 and other previously banned peptides.

In a recent study, scientists devised a way of reversing the buildup of compounds that lead to some age-related diseases.

A Cambridge professor has transcribed a handwritten story that the famous mathematician wrote in the year before his death, presenting a different side of him.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality slowed the awarding of new grants last year. Now it is stopping existing ones.

Dr. Tsimerman won one of four Fields Medals, an award for top mathematicians under 40, for his work on the André-Oort conjecture, but is now changing his focus to artificial intelligence.

In an all-day hearing, the agency’s scientists argued against allowing broad access to unproven drugs that the agency had banned three years ago.

The young mathematician won a prestigious Fields Medal for her work on the so-called Kakeya conjecture.

Jackie found an online audience through a webcam pointed at her nest in California. She was rescued last week after a fight with other eagles, officials said.

A favorite vacation option may be at risk because of rising temperatures. Even those sticking with their summer plans agree: More air conditioning would help.

The awards are bestowed only once every four years to mathematicians under the age of 40.

The mathematics professor has won a prestigious Fields Medal for his work at the intersection of geometry, topology and physics.

Dr. Deng, a mathematics professor at the University of Chicago, received a Fields Medal for his work on an equation describing fluid mechanics.

Marine biologists in Mexico captured video of a strange maneuver that killer whales used to shred their meal.

The dunes sagebrush lizard, found only in the oil-rich Permian Basin, was classified as endangered two years ago.

In Homer’s epic, Odysseus’s men eat something so powerful that they forget about home. Which plants could have produced such a soporific, narcotic and amnesiac effect?

Transmissible tumors have been reported in a handful of animal species, but never before among fish. Is it possible in humans?

New research also shows that children and high-risk adult populations have been particularly affected.

Charles Ross spent 50 years building “Star Axis,” a naked-eye observatory in New Mexico. Now his masterwork is ready. How to share it with a changed world?

The first Japanese scientist to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, he went on to discover how memories are stored, advancing understanding of how the brain works.