A model suggests a massive uplift caused by a phenomenon called “river piracy” partly explains Everest’s impressive height ...

Whoever wins the 2024 presidential election will face heightened nuclear geopolitics, deadlines on nuclear deals with Russia ...

Hurricane Helene forced dozens of medical facilities across the southern U.S. to evacuate patients, underscoring the human ...

Linguist and sociophonetician Nicole Holliday analyzes the language used by candidates in the recent presidential and vice ...

Seung and Murthy say that they’ve been developing the FlyWire map for more than four years, using electron microscopy images ...

As Microsoft strikes a deal to restart a reactor at Three Mile Island to power AI, nuclear specialists weigh in on the ...

The average tropical cyclone in the U.S. ultimately causes about 7,000 to 11,000 excess deaths, new research finds ...

In a dense Republic of Congo rainforest, scientists have mapped a network of strangely open clearings where wild beasts go to ...

The presidential candidates have vastly divergent records on and plans for protecting access to reproductive health care, ...

Like the compass, light bulb and other once-revolutionary tools, the search engine has taken its place in the barely ...

The conservative Project 2025 playbook for a possible Trump presidency calls for cutting aid for disasters such as Hurricane ...

Physicists have detected a long-sought particle process that may suggest new forces and particles exist in the universe ...