Republicans asked Congress’s watchdog to scrutinize offshore wind power’s effect on commercial fishing, marine navigation and wildlife, but the resulting report undermines anti-wind-power talking poin ...

China is blocking exports of these vital minerals. What makes them so special?

That’s exactly what happened in 1900 at the International Congress of Mathematicians at Sorbonne University in Paris.

Now a few researchers think a form of two-way communication with dolphins could be on the horizon. In collaboration with the ...

W hen most people think of shapes, they imagine a triangle, a rectangle, or maybe even a fancier- sounding rhombus or trapezoid. But to mathematicians, shapes encompass a vast universe of surprising ...

All the while, people make lists of places in the U.S. that are supposedly more resistant to climate change. They lie farther north, presumed to be better insulated from global warming, or near rivers ...

Elephants are creatures of habit, and they typically don’t show up here at the Mushara waterhole in Namibia’s Etosha National Park until at least 11 A.M. But the full moon does funny things to ...

S ammy Ramsey was having a hard time getting information. It was 2019, and he was in Thailand, researching parasites that kill bees. But Ramsey was struggling to get one particular Thai beekeeper to ...

The decades-long struggle to find a permanent place to dispose of nuclear waste in the U.S. will continue, probably for many years to come ...

Holt, one of Magellan’s offshore managers, said the aim was to test the physical requirements and environmental impacts of pulling up sulfide deposits. What would soon become unclear, however, was why ...

Hypochlorous acid is safe enough to spray in your eyes yet more effective than bleach. Why isn’t it everywhere?

In the blink of an eye the land bloomed with a spectrum of brilliant color where before it was all greens and earth tones. It was the sudden awakening of a new aesthetic; our “shrew-like” ancestors, ...