Science

Let’s make one thing clear right away: Planting trees and having a diverse array of them is a great way to improve air quality, promote biodiversity, and absorb harmful carbon...

Scientists have presented a compelling explanation for a mysterious population of radiant galaxies that existed in an era known as “cosmic dawn,” which elapsed between 100 million years to one...

Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier have won the 2023 Nobel Prize physics for “experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in...

The Federal Communications Commission announced Monday it has fined Dish Network $150,000 for a retired satellite that was left in the wrong place in space as concerns about space trash...

Engineers with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) may have just changed how we create drinkable water. The change comes courtesy of a small and low-cost desalination device that could...

Researchers have been watching a group of orcas in the Pacific Northwest harass and kill porpoises for nearly 60 years. But oddly enough, the killer whales don’t eat the animals....

This article is republished from The Markup. Read the original article, which was copublished with WIRED. Crime predictions generated for the police department in Plainfield, New Jersey, rarely lined up with...

Last month, Earth-dwellers were treated to a spectacular sight as the green comet Nishimura slingshotted past our Sun. There was a short stint where you could even go outside and...

The top heads of the European Union are expected to visit Canada this year, as officials discuss the possibility of Ottawa joining a major research-funding pact.  “We are expecting the...

Redonda, a small, uninhabited Caribbean island that is part of the commonwealth of Antigua and Barbuda, is on the path to recovering its native ecosystem after being destroyed by invasive...