Cold air, snow, icy roads, grey skies…don’t they all just make you want to drive to the gym or go for a run outside? Probably not! …

There's no question about it. A new epoch—the Anthropocene—has begun. So says an international group of geoscientists, in a paper published Friday in the journal…

US scientists report that lakes worldwide are warming by an average of more than 1°C every 30 years, faster than the warming rate of either…

A talk with historian and engineer David Mindell about drones, social robots, agency, and his enlightening new book Our Robots, Ourselves: Robotics and the Myths…

“We know that exposure to nature enhances our well-being, but we know less about the specific features that create these positive effects,” said MaryCarol Hunter,…

What if a foreign head of state had the power to handpick our next President? It sounds like the plot of a movie, but it…

Food produced on small farms close to where it is consumed—or “local food” for short—accounts for only about 2% of all the food produced in…

Recently, the Washington Post reported new data showing something most of us already sense: that increased polarization on Capitol Hill is due to the way the Republican Party…

U.S. residents' exposure to extreme heat could increase four- to six-fold by mid-century, due to both a warming climate and a population that's growing especially…

The self-organization properties of DNA-like molecular fragments four billion years ago may have guided their own growth into repeating chemical chains long enough to act…

A new study suggests the world's forests are more fragmented than ever before. Analysis by researchers at North Carolina State University showed that if one…

An extensive study of global habitat fragmentation - the division of habitats into smaller and more isolated patches - points to major trouble for a…