Science

A searing heat wave was pushing California’s electric grid to the brink of blacking out earlier this month when, in...

44 of the 48 most populous coastal cities have areas sinking faster than the sea is rising, driven by groundwater...

This was slow going. “We spent a lot of time, probably the first couple of years, really just working out...

Calling customer service is a situation we all know and dread. We navigate a complex maze of automated voice commands,...

A smart way of putting together lots of nanogenerators that exploit static electricity to generate a current could open up...

A new tool from Belsky and his colleagues, introduced in 2020 and updated earlier this year, acts as an aging...

When Allison Baker moved to what she calls “snake heaven,” a home on 2.5 acres just outside of Dallas–Fort Worth,...

A black hole with a mass about 10 times that of the sun is thought to be the closest to...

“There’s a significant amount of math and formulas that has been written about this over the years,” says Still, “but...

I was eating breakfast on a Monday morning at Sears Fine Food in downtown San Francisco, casually watching the local...

A robot made from magnetic fluid can be made smaller, thinner, or directed to break up with special magnets, which...

To keep those Glen Canyon turbines spinning, Lake Powell needs more water. But without big cuts in consumption, the obvious...

By Elizabeth Hlavinka An increased number of girls are going through premature sexual development amid the pandemicDan Kenyon 2013 The...

If there is anyone who attracts near-ubiquitous admiration in the United Kingdom, it’s David Attenborough. The naturalist has had a...

Serious question: How much water does the average adult need to drink every day? You've probably heard the usual answer:...

These images are some of the winning and shortlisted entries for this year’s competition, organised by the Royal Observatory in...