Research Suggests Climate Change Added Excess Deaths in European Heat Wave
The rapid analysis by World Weather Attribution calculated that climate change might have tripled the death toll from the event.Days…
Ivar Giaever, Nobel Winner in Quantum Physics, Dies at 96
A former “D” student from Norway, he made his mark at G.E.’s Research Lab in the U.S., in part by…
Trump’s Budget Would Clip Bird Banding, and Hunters Are Not Happy
The Bird Banding Laboratory has turned duck hunters into citizen scientists. What happens if it is defunded?For more than a…
Trump Wants to Close the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board
The White House is planning to eliminate the board, a small agency that investigates chemical disasters to understand what went…
Lung Cancer Screening on Wheels
West Virginia’s back roads — two lanes, carved into steep mountainsides — were never meant for LUCAS, a 68,000-pound tractor-trailer…
Lung Cancer Screening on Wheels
West Virginia’s back roads — two lanes, carved into steep mountainsides — were never meant for LUCAS, a 68,000-pound tractor-trailer…
Franklin W. Stahl, 95, Dies; Helped Create a ‘Beautiful’ DNA Experiment
He and a colleague proved a theory advanced by the Nobel Prize winners James Watson and Francis Crick, who discovered…
Increasingly Acidic Seas Threaten Oyster Farming
Eighteen years ago, farmed oyster larvae began disappearing in mass die-offs, mystifying hatchery managers in the Pacific Northwest and threatening…
Fiona the Pregnant Sea Reptile’s Fossil Hints at the Birth of a New Ocean
An ichthyosaur preserved beneath a Chilean glacier is helping scientists understand the extinct animals and the world around them as…
As the World Warms, Extreme Rain Is Becoming Even More Extreme
Even in places, like Central Texas, with a long history of floods, human-caused warming is creating the conditions for more…