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Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s successor will have to sign off on a new net-zero strategy after the UK government's plan...

Paper wasps can be trained to choose between pairs of stimuli that are either alike or different, suggesting the propensity...

A review of 17 previous studies finds no evidence for a link between depression and low serotonin levels, which SSRI...

A beautiful image of the spiral galaxy NGC 628, produced using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, may provide...

Vineyard Wind and Revolution Wind are set to be some of the first commercial offshore wind farms in the US....

Mosquito-proof fabrics are being tested by the US military in an effort to make uniforms that protect against malaria and...

We recently celebrated our daughter’s marriage, a life-affirming ritual made all the more joyous by being able to reunite with...

Companies are taking steps to prevent heat damage to high-power computers, with some shutting down machines used for performing software...

The long days of summer have returned to the Northern Hemisphere. They promise music festivals, sporting events, camps and travel....

After decades of heading NASA’s exploration of Saturn, Jupiter and their moons, the space physicist describes what we have learned...

CLIMATEWIRE | Water levels have fallen so low on the Colorado River that they are threatening a dam relied upon...

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The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Heat waves are...

The Wilder Blean project, like many of its ilk, is inspired largely by the work of Dutch ecologist Frans Vera....

I’ll be asleep soon. I just have to write a quick WhatsApp message—and check Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. And because...

Heathrow Airport has provisionally recorded a temperature of 40.2°C, an event that would be extremely unlikely without climate change, and...