Science

This week’s challenge for new birders: Try joining a group for an outing, or go birding with at least one new person.Let us know how it goes by commenting here. And if...

In July 1945, as J. Robert Oppenheimer and the other researchers of the Manhattan Project prepared to test their brand-new atomic bomb in a New Mexico desert, they knew relatively little about...

In 1966, scientists at Camp Century, a now abandoned U.S. military base in the Arctic, drilled deep into the Greenland ice sheet, extracting a cylinder of ice nearly a mile long along...

Armed with machetes and chain-saws, hacking through fallen trees and wading through dense scrub, the archaeologists cleared a path down rocky trails.At last, they reached their destination in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula: a...

Missy Sims carefully picked her way through a field of ruined tombs in central Puerto Rico, in a cemetery where walls of water from Hurricane Maria had smashed open some coffins and...

A new analysis has found that the White House’s signature environmental justice program may not shrink racial disparities in who breathes the most polluted air, in part because of efforts to ensure...

For example, there’s a moment where James Remar, who played , kept talking to me about how he learned that Stimson and his wife had honeymooned in Kyoto. And that was one...

Following months of intense scrutiny of his scientific work, Marc Tessier-Lavigne announced Wednesday that he would resign as president of Stanford University after an independent review of his research found significant flaws...

Natural gas, long seen as a cleaner alternative to coal and an important tool in the fight to slow global warming, can be just as harmful to the climate, a new study...

As cities around the world have been experiencing record temperatures, average temperatures for the entire globe in July have been at their highest on record, too.Global air temperatures reached a new high...