First-of-its-kind FEMA funding aims to update archaic building codes that leave millions of people exposed to climate-fueled hurricanes, floods and other extreme weather | Continue reading
Traditional antibiotics drive bacteria toward drug resistance, so scientists are looking to viruses, CRISPR, designer molecules and protein swords for better superbug treatments | Continue reading
Students could be taught for the next decade that humans are only partly responsible for climate change | Continue reading
NASA’s Psyche mission is on its way to a heavy-metal asteroid of the same name—a type of object that scientists have never seen up close before | Continue reading
NASA’s Psyche mission is on its way to a heavy-metal asteroid of the same name—a type of object that scientists have never seen up close before | Continue reading
Researchers have been banned from working in Indonesia’s tropical rain forests after the government disagreed with their scientific conclusions. | Continue reading
A hydrogeologist explains the shifting balance between fresh and salt water at the coast as sea levels rise | Continue reading
Media reports suggest an unprecedented outbreak of bed bugs in Paris, but experts aren’t so sure anything is out of the ordinary | Continue reading
Powering artificial intelligence models takes a lot of energy. A new analysis demonstrates just how big the problem could become | Continue reading
When the sun gets feisty, Earth’s atmosphere can literally light up. But seeing the resulting aurora isn’t always easy | Continue reading
Raging floods, intensifying drought and rising seas could affect saltwater intrusion | Continue reading
How Elizebeth Smith Friedman went from scouring Shakespeare for secret codes to taking down a Nazi spy ring | Continue reading
An AI used to build artificial neural networks can also create autonomous robot bodies with remarkable speed | Continue reading
Quantum physics’ oddities seem less surprising if you stop thinking of atoms as tennis balls, and instead more like waves pushing through water | Continue reading
Argentine researchers studied a regional slang that reverses the order of word syllables or letters. Their findings give insight into our natural ability to engage in wordplay | Continue reading
OSIRIS-REx’s treasure trove from asteroid Bennu includes material rich in water and carbon | Continue reading
Neuron activity shows that the brain uses different systems for counting up to four, and for five or more | Continue reading
A surprisingly complex galaxy cluster suggests that in the search for dark matter, nothing is as simple as it seems | Continue reading
Supreme Court justices declined to decide whether the Biden administration is placing too high a value on the cost to society of spewing carbon and other planet-warming gases | Continue reading
A company that creates genetically modified pig organs for transplants hopes to test its product in human trials if regulators approve them | Continue reading
A needle-like tower, hung with sensors, "sniffs" the air above the Arctic circle for signs of catastrophic thaw in the sodden ground below. | Continue reading
Claudia Goldin mined 200 years of data to show that greater economic growth did not lead to wage parity or more women in the workplace | Continue reading
Slow-moving stars at the Milky Way’s outskirts suggest our galaxy may be far lighter than previously believed, with profound implications for dark matter | Continue reading
For the third time in a year, coolant is leaking from a Russian module aboard the International Space Station | Continue reading
In addition to finding where citrus come from, researchers have pinpointed the genetic origins of the fruits’ tart taste | Continue reading
Levels of murder, assault, torture and the like fluctuated greatly in the ancient world, according to new research | Continue reading
With the expansion of wind power—and the growth of turbines—comes challenges in areas that are unaccustomed to whirring blades | Continue reading
The European Space Agency says a software patch restored stability to its cosmos-mapping Euclid spacecraft — but slower operations could extend the mission | Continue reading
A heat dome that baked parts of South America in late September was made much more likely and at least 1.4 degrees Celsius (2.5 degrees Fahrenheit) hotter by climate change | Continue reading
New research suggests that solar storms interfere with the magnetic compass that birds use for long-distance travel | Continue reading
Science plays an enormous unseen role in keeping international avenues of contact open, even when political doors slam shut. We need to keep those channels open with China | Continue reading
Glasses that provide subtitles for conversations could be a boon to people with hearing loss | Continue reading
These mysterious spots of barren soil have fascinated scientists for years. Now evidence of their existence beyond two known locations is stirring up a fresh round of contention | Continue reading
In a tiny village north of the Arctic Circle in Canada, the Inuvialuit of Tuktoyaktuk have taken climate science into their own hands. | Continue reading
How do people make peace with the image reflected back at them in a video conference? | Continue reading
The CDC is emphasizing how the flu vaccine can turn the virus from “Wild to Mild” | Continue reading
The Philippines, India and China have seen the greatest total number of children displaced by disasters—some 23 million—in recent years | Continue reading
Draft CDC guidelines recommend doxycycline for the prevention of sexually transmitted infections in some populations | Continue reading
What is a permafrost thaw slump? Just imagine a massive hole with an area the size of more than nine football fields—and growing—where ice-cold ground once stood. | Continue reading
What is a permafrost thaw slump? Just imagine a massive hole with an area the size of more than nine football fields—and growing—where ice-cold ground once stood. | Continue reading
The exercise of writing down unfiltered thoughts enhances self-knowledge | Continue reading
Hawaii’s brightly colored honeycreepers are at imminent risk of extinction, and bacteria could be the key to saving them | Continue reading
Of the thousands of stars visible to the eye, only a few hundred are known to have planets. But that number may be far higher in reality | Continue reading
A new study suggests humans arrived in the Americas before the height of the last ice age more than 20,000 years ago | Continue reading
If this new estimate holds up, scientists have yet to identify the vast majority of earthworks strewn across the Amazon | Continue reading
A simplified penicillin allergy test could help reduce false positives, but doctors face challenges in using it | Continue reading
More states are requiring homeowners to disclose a property’s flood risk and history when they sell it. But 18 states, including hurricane-prone Florida, have no flood disclosure requirements | Continue reading
New “multimodal” AI programs can do much more than respond to text—they also analyze images and chat aloud | Continue reading