Take a brief walk outside and you're likely to encounter a wide range of things that could influence your health—the sunlight ...
“Demonic intrusion,” a term coined in 1984, describes uncontrolled, often random disturbances by an entity, human or ...
The move follows an administration push for cuts to the NSF and raises concerns in the scientific community that it could ...
The National Academy of Sciences announced today the election of 120 members and 25 international members in recognition of ...
New experiments suggest that freezing and thawing on early Earth may have helped primitive cell-like structures grow and ...
Each year on April 24, scientists, advocates, and policymakers around the world mark World Day for Laboratory Animals—a ...
Middle school science classrooms are shifting towards an integrated, multi-disciplinary approach to better prepare students ...
Dr. Alan T. Waterman was appointed last week as first director of the National Science Foundation, whose principal job is to stimulate theoretical research. U.S. scientists were sure to cheer the ...
A series of Republican state legislatures are advancing, or have already passed, laws severely limiting the ability of state agencies to set environmental regulations, despite warnings from the ...
The deterioration of the Earth’s ozone layer, which protects the planet from harmful radiation, was viewed as an existential threat to humanity for decades. But today, you rarely hear about it. Ever ...
In November, scientists arrived at the South Pole in planes outfitted with skis to pull off a construction project seven years in the making. They had a short summer window — November to early ...
IF TIMING IS everything, then Thomas Hartung picked a bad moment to make his move. Dr Hartung is an environmental toxicologist at Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, who has spent his career ...