Science

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Appalachian states like Kentucky have a long,...

CLIMATEWIRE | One study after another is coming to the same conclusion about the rapidly warming Arctic: It’s heating up a...

Male and female macaques in a Balinese sanctuary commonly use stone tools to masturbate, possibly because they have more leisure...

But since this uses the total time of flight for the ball, it gives the total distance the ball traveled—to...

CLIMATEWIRE | The sudden unveiling of the Senate climate bill two weeks ago launched a race among emissions modelers. Their calculations,...

The risks of catching covid-19, or being vaccinated against it, during pregnancy have been debated throughout the pandemic, with research...

After their transplants, the researchers followed the volunteers for two years. They concluded that the implants were safe to use...

Oyster reefs once carpeted much of the seafloor, filtering water, stabilizing shorelines and providing habitats for a vast array of...

A large study tracking women in the UK finds that vegetarians have a higher risk of breaking a hip compared...

And co-benefits make a lot of sense: People might reasonably feel more empowered to affect their own health than the...

Conventional testing can underestimate a student’s learning ability. Sociocultural barriers, test anxiety and differences in rates of brain development can...

From dried-up rivers and peatlands to burned-out habitats, the extreme dry conditions across much of England are squeezing everything from...

When you go on a road trip, you pack snacks and drinks and make sure you have good music to...

Jim Lovelock (never ‘James’) is remembered as the father of the Gaia hypoth-esis: the idea that Earth is a self-regulating...

From the exceedingly big to the unfathomably small, cosmologists are trying to unravel a bizarre set of figures that may...

Hopes that it could be useful for treating people with mild illness have also proved unfounded. In June, a trial...