SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

CrushJames RiordonThe MIT Press, $29.95Isaac Newton confessed that he had no idea what gravity was. The 17th century English polymath knew what it did, and he described it with a universal law of gravitation. But where the law came...

On Jan. 7, 2025, people across the Los Angeles area watched in horror as powerful winds began spreading wildfires through neighborhood after neighborhood. Over three weeks, the fires destroyed more than 16,000 homes and businesses....

A rising number of end-of-life patients in hospitals could affect the level of treatment carried out this winter, a group of regional NHS leaders have been told. A consultant in palliative care highlighted the impending "crisis" during an online...

The Klystron Gallery, a concrete hallway studded with evenly spaced metal cylinders, is long enough to extend past my...