Science

The Biden administration on Tuesday laid out for the first time a set of broad government guidelines around the use of carbon offsets in an attempt to shore up confidence in a...

Elon Musk aggressively elbowed his way into the space launch business over the past two decades, combining engineering genius and an entrepreneurial drive with a demand that the U.S. government stop favoring...

Over the past year of record-shattering warmth, the average person on Earth experienced 26 more days of abnormally high temperatures than they otherwise would have, were it not for human-induced climate change,...

The feisty Lord Howe Island stick insect crawling on the gloved hand of Kyle Kassel, a keeper at the San Diego Zoo, had no idea that he shouldn’t exist. The intrepid insect,...

New Yorkers, get ready for the latest solar spectacle.Each year at the end of May, and again in mid-July, residents and tourists alike flood the streets of Manhattan for a spectacular view...

Witnessing the blood-red fires of a volcanic eruption on Earth is memorable. But to see molten rock bleed out of a volcano on a different planet would be extraordinary. That is close...

I saw the murdering in progress once. I was on a cruise to Antarctica to write a coffee-table book about penguins. During one of the naturalist-led walks through a penguin colony, we...

Slowly but steadily, Marlene Nathanson was recovering. She had suffered a stroke in November 2022 at her home in Minneapolis and spent a week in a hospital; afterward, when she arrived at...

Beef tissue from a sick dairy cow has tested positive for the bird flu virus, federal officials said on Friday.The cow had been condemned to be culled because it was sick, and...

Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, which was scheduled to take two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station on May 6, will remain on the ground for at least another week as engineers chase...