A big report by the world’s scientists will predict global temperatures could rise beyond 1.5 degrees by early next decade, far earlier than expected.

Academics, activists and amateurs are making imaginative use of powerful tools

The relentlessness of chronic pain wears you down. Beyond being a physical distraction in and of itself, it disrupts sleep, interferes with work and relationships, and can even alter the way we process emotions by causing physiological changes in

A newly formed patent troll is looking for big money from small business websites, just for using free, off-the-shelf login verification tools. Defenders of the American Dream, LLC (DAD ), is sending

Biden’s major bipartisan infrastructure plan struck a rare chord of cooperation between Republicans and Democrats, but changes it proposes to cryptocurrency regulation are tripping up the bill.

Before I launch into the ergonomics and math stuff, imagine that you’re at a movie theater. If you sit in the front section of the theater, it’s hard to see the whole screen without twisting your neck from side to side. These seats are always the last to…

Human evolution favors energy conservation, but has our evolution worked against us since inactivity — sitting — is linked to health risks? A new study of a modern hunter-gatherer society finds that they lack health risks for heart disease and metabolic disease…

Welcome! This is going to be the first of a new sort of post we’ll do from time to time where I answer a number of shorter questions posed by my patrons over at Patreon who are at the Patres …

A very long time ago I had an interesting if flawed idea. The idea was to (optionally) replace instances of expression constructs with equations defining or referring to components of conventional …

A mystery solved by science: a new type of giant clam in the Indian Ocean, unmasked!

At least half of termite studies used to be about how to kill them. But science is discovering their extraordinary usefulness

An unfathomable quantity of ice slipped into the ocean during a recent heat wave that featured record-breaking temperatures and rainfall in one of the coldest places on Earth.

The era of cheap natural gas is over, giving way to an age of far more costly energy that will create ripple effects across the global economy.

NASA is calling for applicants interested in spending a year in a 1,700 square foot habitat meant to help study what it will be like for future explorers to live on the surface of Mars.While participants would not need to strap into a rocket and blast off…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Qatar Airways said Thursday it grounded 13 Airbus A350s over what it described as fuselages “degrading at an accelerated rate” in the long-range aircraft, further escalating a monthslong dispute with the European airplane…