A cicada in sync with its brood is a cicada with a chance. The insects’ synchronized emergence is an evolutionary strategy, scientists say. Birds, raccoons and other predators can eat only so many of them. So the more cicadas emerge together, the bet ...

The World Health Organization has issued a report that transforms how the world understands respiratory infections like Covid, influenza and measles. Motivated by grave missteps in the pandemic, the WHO convened about 50 experts in virology, ...

Four officers were fatally shot as a U.S. Marshals task force was serving a warrant at a home Monday in Charlotte, North Carolina, officials said. A suspected shooter was also dead. A marshal and two local officers working with the fugitive task forc ...

Legends are made about the terrible roads of Novosibirsk. It’s no secret that the quality of highway repairs in the capital of Siberia leaves much to be desired. But the city administration has gone further, in addition to the fact that it is not abl ...