Critics say U.K. investment in research on climate-cooling interventions, such as refreezing sea ice and brightening clouds, distracts from the need to cut planet-warming emissions ...

Niu worked with University of Pennsylvania physicist Randall D. Kamien and Geneviève Dion, founding director of Drexel ...

Scientists at Europe’s famous particle collider briefly created gold ions from lead in a modern twist on the alchemical goal ...

A new review of ocean data suggests that more than 99.999 percent of the global deep seafloor has never been seen by humans.

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The sun has produced stunning auroras on Earth in recent years as solar activity has peaked—but expect more in coming years ...

The Hospital Preparedness Program helps hospitals and emergency managers save lives in wildfires, tornadoes, pandemics and ...

Young people today will be exposed to a number of heat waves that no one would have experienced before the burning of fossil ...

Defending our public libraries is part of a larger struggle for the integrity of institutions essential to democracy, writes ...

Inuit languages really do have many words for snow, linguists found—and other languages have conceptual specialties, too, ...

Hit by restructuring, the EPA is reportedly planning to end the Energy Star program, a project that has saved hundreds of ...

A disruption in federal funds has jeopardized HIV testing and outreach in the U.S. South, and researchers warn of a ...