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…

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NASA’s selection of SpaceX’s Starship within the Human Lander System (HLS) program was both surprising and exciting for space nerds all over. Previously I have written about how Starshi…

Families of kids with a rare disease have waited years for a treatment. In seconds, an AI tool pinpointed an unexpected target: ketamine. 

Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell chronicle the fall of WeWork's day-drinking co-founder and chief snake-oil salesman.

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Dead zones develop when “excess nutrients” from cities and farms drain —”runoff” — into the water, decaying algae and eventually making the area uninhabitable for most marine life.

Anna Sacks documents her ‘trash walks’ on social media, shining a light on the everyday shame and indignity of producing and living with so much waste

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