Science & Space

How extreme heat affects America's most vulnerable

Last August, residents of New Orleans endured a spate of extreme heat alerts, wa...

Young people who witness domestic violence are more lik...

In our national discussions on domestic and family violence, much of the focus i...

Museum specimens offer new lens on pollution history

A new study highlights a surprising lens for tracking pollution trends over cent...

'String breaking' observed in 2D quantum simulator

An international team led by Innsbruck quantum physicist Peter Zoller, together ...

Extreme weather's true damage cost is often a mystery. ...

On Jan. 5, 2025, at about 2:35 in the afternoon, the first severe hailstorm of t...

Publisher Correction: Metal–support frontier orbital in...

Nature, Published online: 04 June 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09109-5Publisher ...

Ginormous planet discovered around tiny red star challe...

Scientists have discovered a giant planet called TOI-6894b, orbiting a star that...

Research challenges conventional theories of how cells ...

The human body is a veritable cellular highway with up to 37 trillion cells trav...

The heaviest proton emitter: New type of atomic nucleus...

For the first time in almost 30 years, the heaviest nucleus decaying via proton ...

From sovereignty to sustainability: A brief history of ...

The United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC 3) will open in Nice, France, on June ...

How an odd star in the 'Gaia Sausage' could help solve ...

The discovery of a metal-rich star packed with both light and heavy elements hin...

A leaderless NASA faces its biggest-ever cuts

More than 40 science missions would be cancelled if Donald Trump’s budget goes t...

Chemists develop new method to synthesize chiral bridge...

A Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) research team has devel...

Wild cockatoos in Western Sydney learn how to drink fro...

A team of animal behaviorists at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in ...

Climate is an everyday story, but media coverage still ...

Climate change is already happening. But 36% of the world's population still dis...

What if the Big Bang wasn't the beginning? Research sug...

The Big Bang is often described as the explosive birth of the universe—a singula...

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