Samantha Stark

A Cincinnati real estate agent, his deceased husband’s aunt and their funeral director found themselves at the center of Obergefell vs. Hodges, the biggest Supreme Court same-sex marriage case in U.S. history.

A tiny marine mollusk no bigger than a peppercorn flies through the water with the same wing motion as a fruit fly.

Researchers interested in the costs and benefits of social behavior studied Japanese macaques, looking for ties between social contacts and lice.

The Murray crayfish, the world’s second largest, is sensitive to changes in habitat. But populations can come back from current declines.

We asked readers to show us why parrots are more than just a pretty bird. Out of hundreds of submissions, these are some of our favorites.

Peacocks not only show their spectacular tails, or trains, they rattle them, and scientists are nailing down the physics of feather vibration.

A submersible robot in human form, developed at Stanford University, completed its first dive, recovering a 17th-century vase.

The RoboBee, which weighs a few thousandths of an ounce, uses an electrostatic patch to perch on just about anything.

An underwater microscope that divers can use to view corals on the seafloor can show details down to one micron, or one-hundredth the width of a human hair.

As a teenager, Adolfo Kaminsky saved thousands of lives by forging passports to help children flee the Nazis. He spent his life helping others escape atrocities around the world.

The Ms. Senior America pageant caters not to women on the cusp of adulthood but to those who have experienced life in all of its joys and sorrows. They’re still kicking — and kicking high.

The questions have led to countless unions. What can they do for pairs who know everything about each other?

“Tell your partner what you like about them, and be very honest.” We asked three couples who know everything about each other to try out Modern Love’s 36 questions, intended to bring strangers closer.

Birds and planes don’t mix — so some airports are testing whether drones (with flapping wings) can scare flocks away. We take you inside a trial program in Alberta, Canada.

In the 1990s, young women at Antioch College created the country’s first affirmative consent policy for sex. They were publicly mocked; even “S.N.L.” weighed in. Here’s what they think now.

Before I could spend the night in my younger sister’s dorm room, I had to report to security...

Vinny Mallozzi’s career has taken him from the Jets locker room to Donald J. Trump Jr.’s wedding reception. Here is a look at one of the 6,000 weddings he has covered.

What’s it like to have a bullet lodged inside of you? We asked survivors of mass shootings, from Parkland to Pulse, to tell us how it feels to live with a constant reminder of the tragedy.

More than 13 years after a strict legal arrangement gave James P. Spears control of the singer’s affairs, a new lawyer for Ms. Spears asked the court to remove him from the arrangement.

A week after the singer’s impassioned courtroom speech, the man who has long overseen her conservatorship called for an investigation into her claims that she had been abused under it.