SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

When almost every country met in Brazil last November for the annual United Nations climate summit COP30, hopes were...

That summer was immortal. July was especially savage with sixty-two heat deaths in Seoul, punctuated by the spectacular fizzing...

In 2024, a joke became a headline: “Dog strollers outsell baby strollers in country with world’s lowest birth rate”. As...

Sometime in the 1940s, US physicist David Bohm decided that the only way to understand quantum mechanics was to...

Since much of Papua New Guinea lies close to the equator where the Coriolis effect is weak, the risk of tropical cyclones striking the island nation is relatively low, especially in its northern areas. Nevertheless, unusually warm sea surface...

The human brain remains one of the most fascinating and perplexing mysteries in medicine. Scientists still struggle...

Candy giant Hershey is getting a sales boost from an unexpected...

Google I/O is rapidly approaching. Google's big developer conference kicks off May 19 and will be available to stream live for anyone not...

Available for 34 daysThe latest European State of the Climate report has found that Europe is once again getting warmer, and at a rate that is twice as fast as the global average. Tom Whipple is joined by Dr...

A newly discovered organelle may hold the key to how much methane cattle burp out.The organelle doesn’t belong to cows. It’s part of fuzzy single-celled protozoa called ciliates. The microbes live in cattle’s rumens, the first stomach of cud-chewing...