California holds vast stores of lithium. But mining projects stir debate over environmental costs and economic benefits.

Last week, the agency's bedrock "endangerment finding" that greenhouse gases threaten human life was overturned.

Since the 1980s, athletes have been using fluorinated waxes on their boards, giving them "ridiculous" speed. No longer.

Does the technology prevent shootings? The evidence is thin. Critics suggest security companies are preying on fear.

With cuts to Obamacare looming, the U.S. could look to the Netherlands for a model of a sustainable multi-payer system.

On May 5, 2023, a 19-year-old hiker named Matthew Read headed out on a roughly 12-mile trek in an underpopulated part of Glacier National Park in Montana. Read, a chemical engineering student, had ...

Authors don’t get to choose what’s going on in the world when their books are published. More than a few luckless writers ended up with a publication date of Sept. 11, 2001, or perhaps Nov. 8, 2016, ...

The lawsuits join a recent uptick in legal action against universities, departments, and professional societies that host programs intended to increase diversity across academia, including in the ...

One day in 1905, the French geophysicist Bernard Brunhes brought back to his lab some rocks he’d unearthed from a freshly cut road near the village of Pont Farin. When he analyzed their magnetic ...

Since reports emerged earlier this year that dairy cows across the country had been infected with H5N1 bird flu, the prospect that the virus could evolve to spark another pandemic has stoked serious ...